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GES grad student & Shriver Fellow in Peace Corps video
Check this out: A quick video clip that was put together by the Peace Corps, featuring two RPCVs who are now pursuing graduate degrees and continuing their service work.  One of them is our own...
September 4, 2014 · 1:30 PM
Would restoring riparian forests reduce nitrogen in the Bay?
Scientisits quantify potential benefits for the first time
Check out new research from Dr. Don Weller from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and UMBC's Dr. Matthew Baker...
June 25, 2014 · 11:14 AM
Dr. Maggie Holland leading GES field course to Costa Rica
GES goes to Costa Rica
Dr. Holland is leading a group of fifteen UMBC students down to Costa Rica for a GES summer field course focusing on conservation and sustainable development in two biological (conservation)...
May 28, 2014 · 1:50 PM
Sustainability Matters: An interview with Dr. Chris Swan
Laura Bartock (2013) asks Dr. Swan about sustainability.
Highlights: “We know that very diverse ecological communities provide important ecosystem services, such as pollinators, [...] These services are important not only to human well-being, but...
April 6, 2014 · 12:46 PM
Melanie Harrison on KQED
Melanie was one of our first Ph.D. graduates (MEES program)
Melanie Harrison was in our first cohort of IGERT students and was one of the first two IGERT students to complete the Ph.D. at UMBC. She worked with Drs. Miller (GES) and Groffman (Cary Institute...
February 19, 2014 · 7:53 AM
Ph.D. student Laura Merner cited in article on WV pollution
West Virigina Chemical Spill, Poverty and Pollution
Behind West Virginia’s Massive Chemical Spill, A History Of Poverty And Pollution
January 26, 2014 · 9:39 AM
Dr. Dawn Biehler on Mind Over Matters, Seattle Public Radio
Dr. Biehler talks about her new book, *Pests in the City*
Dr. Dawn Biehler gave an interview about her new book *Pests in the City* on the Sustainability Segment of Mind Over Matters, KEXP-Seattle Public Radio (to listen to the archived program, click on...
November 3, 2013 · 10:01 PM
Using the Planet: Erle Ellis Feature in Global Change Mag
Humans have been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia
In his new feature article in Global Change Magazine: Using the Planet, Erle Ellis advances a broader view of the Anthropocene over many millennia, and what that means for land stewardship. Even...
October 25, 2013 · 1:42 PM
Dr. Dawn Biehler on Maryland morning, WYPR
Here is an interview with Dawn Biehler about her new book, Pests in the City.
September 25, 2013 · 12:24 PM
Dr. Erle Ellis in the New York Times
Overpopulation Is Not the Problem
Dr. Ellis discusses world population growth and human adaptability in this Op-Ed piece for the New York Times.
September 17, 2013 · 4:13 PM

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