Environmental Studies
- Cassandra Brooks, whom The Explorers Club has honored as an ‘extraordinary person’ doing ‘remarkable work to promote science and exploration,’ gives onsite lessons on the ‘vital’ ecosystem.
- Dan Doak, a CU Boulder professor of environmental studies who has studied threatened and endangered species for decades, reflects on a half century of species protection.
- After an 80-year absence, gray wolves have returned to Colorado; CU Boulder expert Joanna Lambert talks about the implications.
- Like other animals, they are marking their territory, and being subtle about it would not serve their purposes.
- The stunning flower, seen in Colorado’s high country, might be a distinct species or not; regardless, this is science at work.
- New scholarship in the CU Boulder Department of Environmental Studies honors Joey Herrin’s non-traditional educational path and love for the natural world.
- The award will fund small exhibits created by high school students that will tour museums and birding festivals throughout the Americas, raising awareness about climate change and promoting STEM diversity.
- In the book ‘The Wild and the Wicked,’ Benjamin Hale argues that because people have the unique capacity to care for the environment, they have a moral obligation to do so.
- Karen Bailey will present her work on the fraught relationship between elephant and human communities in Thailand when she receives her award at the Ecological Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting.
- Appearance of famed political activist, scholar and author reflects the department’s progress toward becoming ‘go-to place’ of interdisciplinary work at the nexus of humans and the environment, CU Boulder professor says.