University of Florida
environmental history professor Jack E. Davis has received mighty praise for his «The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea» from some of the top names in our business: legendary Harvard University scientist - author Edward O. Wilson, nationally known climate activist - author Bill McKibben, Rachel Carson biographer William Souder, and noted water author and fellow faculty member Cynthia Barnett, to name a few.
«You can have thousands of school kids doing research in a way that accomplishes much more than a handful of scientists,» adds
environmental history professor Andrew Kirk.
says Andrew Kirk,
environmental history professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism, to be published by University Press of Kansas this month.
Not exact matches
Professor Connolly will address the
history of the Clean Water Act, issues related to
environmental case law, and how policy is shaped by those decisions.
Carmala Garzione, a
professor of earth and
environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, and Junsheng Nie, a visiting research associate at the University, surveyed sediment samples from the northern Tibetan Plateau's Qaidam Basin and were able to construct paleoclimate cycle records from the late Miocene epoch of Earth's
history, which lasted from approximately 11 to 5.3 million years ago.
Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a
professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and
Environmental Science and
professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a
professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National
History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.
«This shows a diverse variety of life existed in fresh water, on land, very early in Earth's
history,» says
Professor Van Kranendonk, Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and head of the UNSW school of Biological, Earth and
Environmental Sciences.
«For every
environmental calamity you can think of, there was very likely some society in human
history that had to deal with it,» said Kohler, emeritus
professor of anthropology at WSU.
«We suspect bacteria quickly colonize the waterborne debris, and mosquito larvae feed on the bacteria,» said Illinois entomology
professor Brian Allan, a co-author on the study with Mackay, Illinois Natural
History Survey entomologist Ephantus Muturi and U. of I. natural resources and
environmental sciences
professor Michael Ward.
«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human
history to date,» says John Holdren, a
professor of
environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Following the largest Ebola epidemic in
history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate
professor of
environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.
«Our previous research used field studies to understand the
history of climate change in the Western US,» said study coauthor Kate Maher, assistant
professor of geological and
environmental sciences at Stanford University.»
Professor Graham Shields - Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences), one of the co-authors and Dr Tostevin's PhD supervisor, said: «We honed in on the last 10 million years of the Proterozoic Eon as the interval of Earth's
history when today's major animal groups first grew shells and churned up the sediment, and found that oxygen levels were important to the relationship between
environmental conditions and the early development of animals.»
«These findings opens the door for studying the geologic
history of how these deep reefs evolved and responded to past
environmental change,» said James Klaus, UM associate
professor of geology and coauthor of the study.
Naomi Oreskes is
Professor of the
History of Science and Affiliated
Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at Harvard University.
Environmental historian J.R. McNeill, PhD, is
professor of history and University Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign
professor of
history and University
Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign
Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Carrie Lambert - Beatty is
professor in the Department of
History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Visual and
Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies.
Contributors include Dale Jamieson,
Professor of
Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University; Chis Wiley, artist, writer, and independent curator; Joel Sternfeld, artist and Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural
History, Sarah Lawrence College; and Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery, New York University.
Michigan State University
professor Robby Richardson has been using Northwest Earth Institute's Choices for Sustainable Living course book for his
Environmental Attitudes class over the past several years, which explores the history of environmental attitudes
Environmental Attitudes class over the past several years, which explores the
history of
environmental attitudes
environmental attitudes and thinking.
Op - Ed article by Nancy Langston, a
professor of
environmental history at Michigan Technological University: «In Oregon, Myth Mixes With Anger ``
I'd like to quote, Roderick Frazier Nash,
Professor Emeritus of
History and
Environmental Studies at UC California, Santa Barbara.
In the paper, published in
Environmental Research Letters, an academic journal, Geoffrey Supran, a postdoctoral fellow, and
Professor Naomi Oreskes, both of the department of the
history of science at Harvard University, analyzed the texts of documents covering a period between 1977 and 2014, which have been made publicly available by the company, specifically focusing on advertorials.
Naomi Oreskes is
Professor of the
History of Science and Affiliated
Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at Harvard University.
The three original directors were Snowmass - based climate mitigation consultant Richard Heede, Harvard
history Professor Naomi Oreskes, and self - described «
environmental visionary» Sally Ranney of Colorado.