Environmental Studies

Environmental studies explores the interaction of humans and our environment.

By its nature, environmental studies is cross-disciplinary; students benefitted from being broadly trained in all four areas of the liberal arts curriculum. For example, issues surrounding tropical deforestation include those that are biological, cultural, political, and economic. While it is not possible to become expert in all these areas, the trick is to be based broadly enough to spot all the potential concerns and to be based deeply enough in several areas to offer reasonable solutions.

Faculty

William Edelglass

Philosophy, Environmental Studies

Seth Harter

Asian Studies, History, Environmental Studies

Kyhl Lyndgaard

Writing, Literature, Environmental Studies

Jenny Ramstetter

Biology, Environmental Studies

Tim Segar

Sculpture, Visual Arts, Environmental Studies

Todd Smith

Chemistry, Biochemistry, Environmental Studies

Sara Salimbeni

Physics, Astronomy, Environmental Studies

Jaime Tanner

Biology, Environmental Studies

Jim Tober

Economics, Environmental Studies

Tom Toleno

Psychology, Environmental Studies

Plans

An illustration from Kristen Thompson’s novella A Tree Awakens

A landscape of interactions: Sustainable land use from farm to forest to fiction

Kristen Thompson, 2019

Four angles of wolf sculls

Carnivore ecology through study and story

Daniel Medeiros, 2019

Huston Park Wilderness in the Sierra Madres.

“A group of trees is called a forest”: An accidental education in the West, the wild, and a changing world

Sophie Ackerman, 2018

A stone on a frozen lake.

Being, place, resistance: Phenomenological and critical approaches

Christopher Lamb, 2018

It is more than just food: A practice-as-research approach to teaching experiential learning courses through the lens of food

Krystal Graybeal, 2017

group of hikers looking over river

Tending to Place: Communities, lands, histories in Memphis, Northern Minnesota, Chilean Patagonia, and Northern New Mexico

Matthew McIntosh, 2017

group of people sitting on a rock

Confronting climate change: An interdisciplinary approach

Ian Hitchcock, 2016

trail graph

Enough for All: Feeding the human population by preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of the land community

Clair Trail, 2015

Image of a desert landscape with Cacti

Reflections on the Nature of Survival: the Role of Facilitation in the Conservation of Sonoran Desert Foundation Species

Tristan Stamm, 2013

A map of mining operations on the Chile-Argentina border.

El oro y la plata no se pueden comer: Mining impacts, policy, and resistance in Latin America

Chrissy Raudonis, 2011