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Tag: environmental studies

  • Julie Bartley

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    “I try to give students the opportunity to do both individual and team assignments and strive to foster an inclusive, active classroom in which students have choices about how they engage with their work.” What are your areas of research and teaching expertise? My research examines the interactions between early life and its environment. I…

  • Joaquin Villanueva

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    “I am interested in understanding how space and our surrounding environment is arranged around particular conceptions of race, class, and gender.” What are your areas of research and teaching expertise? I am a critical human geographer. I am interested in understanding how space and our surrounding environment is arranged around particular conceptions of race, class,…

  • Dr. Pamela Kittelson

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    “The Liberal Arts College I Went to Changed My Life – Listen to the Learning for Life Podcast” Dr. Pamela Kittelson of the Biology Department and Environmental Studies program at Gustavus talks about growing up in Colorado, her path to college and eventually an unanticipated PhD in plant biology, coming to Gustavus, teaching Gustavus students in the…

  • Dr. Jeff La Frenierre

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    “Researching Glacial Melt in the Ecuadorian Andes – Listen to the Learning for Life Podcast” Dr. Jeff La Frenierre of the Gustavus Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences Department at Gustavus on his path to the discipline of Geography, how and why he decided to research glacial melt and its impact on people and communities, the process and…

  • Ashley Ley ’23 and Tessa Yeager ’24

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    “Unseen Passages: Refugees and the Collective Fight for Vitality – Listen to the Learning for Life Podcast” Ashley Ley ’23 and Tessa Yeager ’24, co-chairs of the 2023 Building Bridges conference on March 4, talk about their backgrounds and paths to Gustavus, how and why they became involved in Building Bridges, the rewards of their involvement, developing…

  • Soren Sackreiter ’26

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    “Having such small classes also allows me to get to know my professors to the point where they are giving me emails of their friends doing research I may be interested in.” Soren has always had an interest in environmental stewardship, and he has found the Environment, Geography and Earth Sciences Department to be a…

  • Audrey Ochtrup-Dekeyrel ’22

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    “From farmhand to food researcher, Gustavus planted the seed for a new career path—that of professor.” A “terrible, bratty child” when it came to helping on her family’s farm in southeastern Minnesota, a younger Ochtrup-DeKeyrel couldn’t have imagined making a career out of agriculture. Now, shaped by her upbringing and her experiences as an environmental…

  • Professor Julie Bartley

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    The faculty point person for the Nobel Hall expansion and renovation reflects on tending to it. She wasn’t exactly the faculty “leader” on the Nobel Hall of Science expansion and renovation. She was more of a guide, a chaperone, an escort. Call her the “faculty shepherd.” The Geology and Environmental Studies professor carried no crook,…

  • Geology Students and Prof Publish in Scientific Reports

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    The publication is affiliated with Nature, the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal.

  • Emily Ford ’15 Film Screening Set for April 2

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    Ford, who completed a 1,200-mile solo winter thru-hike of Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail, will be on campus for a film screening and q-and-a.