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Personal reflections as an LGBTQ+ student on campus

Environmental News Bits

My friend Nathan Alexander, who is a doctoral student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, wrote this essay for the Voices of ACES blog in recognition of Pride month. Here’s an excerpt: I came to the University of Illinois in January 2017 as a Ph.D.

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Being in Nature: Good for Mind, Body and Nutrition

Academy of Natural Sciences

The data were collected between May and August 2017. Future research should explore the ways different communities experience and value nature,” said Dane Ward, PhD, assistant teaching professor in Drexel’s Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) department and co-author of the study. “It

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Saint Vincent College Professor's Internship Program Aims To Help Continue Cleanup Of Local Mine Drainage, Waterways In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

Yes, but … “It depends on where you’re looking and what you’re looking for,” said Dr. Peter Smyntek , associate professor of Environmental Science at Saint Vincent College (SVC). John Pawlak, 25, an environmental science major from North Huntingdon, was part of the internship group last summer.

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Environmental privilege: How recovery and rebuilding after climate disasters favors the wealthy

Frontiers

Gould is professor of sociology and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and professor of sociology, and earth and environmental sciences at CUNY Graduate Center. During this research in 2017, Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda and damaged or destroyed almost every building on the island.

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Allegheny College: Research Team Helps Statewide Effort In Stream Monitoring And Trout Assessment

PA Environment Daily

We also do some habitat assessments and water chemistry measurements,” said Hemmelgarn, an environmental science and sustainability major and a Spanish minor. From 2011 to 2017 (which is the last year of updated information), PFBC and their partners have assessed 5,932 streams across the state with 12,410 miles of streams surveyed.

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Antarctic extreme events: ‘All-time records are being shattered not from decades ago, but from the last few years and months’

Frontiers

A new study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science has revealed that, in addition to the influence of gradual global heating, Antarctica is increasingly affected by extreme environmental events; a recognized and predicted outcome of our heating world.

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What Happened During the Montana Youth Climate Trial

Legal Planet

Like the testimony of Georgianna Fischer , a competitive cross country skier and environmental science college major. It was powerful in aggregate even though individual lines of questioning felt almost mundane. She talked about her family history and about growing up in Montana before turning to the plight of snow sports. “My