Category: <span>CEP Faculty</span>

Bard CEP Faculty Publish Teaching Module: Regulating Carbon Emissions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact:  Krista Herbstrith Company Name: Science Education Resource Center Telephone Number: 507-222-5634 Email Address: [email protected] Web site address: http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/index.html InTeGrate is pleased to announce the publication of the complete Regulating Carbon Emissions module at http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/carbon_emissions/index.html. Developed by Robyn Smyth (Bard College), Sandra Penny (Sage Colleges), Curt Gervich …

Letter from Oaxaca, January 2017

Professor Monique Segarra is the lead faculty for our January Term in Oaxaca, Mexico. She wrote this letter on January 27, 2017. Dear All, We are having an amazing January term –in large part due to the tireless work of Sebastian. Yesterday we rested and recovered from a pretty grueling …

CEP Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer Phillips

When one considers the interdisciplinary nature of Bard CEP’s curriculum, Jennifer Phillips’ arrival at Bard seemed almost predestined. Having completed her PhD at Cornell University in Soil, Crop and Atmospheric Sciences and subsequently researching El Niño and climate patterns at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia …

Following the Tea Horse Road: Trade, Tourism and Conservation in Yunnan Province

Monique Segarra, Assistant Professor Bard Center for Environmental Policy With the generous support of the Luce Foundation Asia and the Environment grant to Bard College, I spent two weeks this July in Yunnan Province, located in Southwestern China. Traveling with my colleague, Dr. Bruce Robertson, we designed a trip that …

Inside the 6th Annual Bard CEP Alumni Panel

On Friday, August 26th, Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) hosted its 6th annual Alumni/ae Panel. Participants included Serena Macintosh ’14, Rochelle March ’15, Natalie Narotzky ’12, Jessica Schug ’15, Ann Starodaj ’12, and Chad Tudenggongbu ’11. Current Bard CEP students and faculty were in attendance, as well as Bard …

Trip to Japan: My Experience with LIASE

Ivan Glinski, Economics & Asian Studies student at Bard This summer, I spent four weeks in the often grueling heat of the Kantō region in Japan, working on an organic farm. Six days a week I would get driven in the morning to a rice field, which I would help weed together …

Local Livelihoods and Environmental Conservation in Southern China

Bruce Robertson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College In July, 2016, I traveled to Yunnan Province, China with my colleague Monique Segarra with the goal of better understanding the socio-economic and political environment shaping the conservation of ecosystems and natural resources in the region.  Our central goal was to use …

Bard CEP to Lead Micro-Hydro Stakeholder Process

Over the next two years, students and faculty at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy will develop and test a “stakeholder process” to help communities and landholders evaluate the potential for micro-hydro installations. The initiative is part of a broader research focus at Bard on micro-hydro potential in New York …

Hearing the Student Voice on Clean Energy: Nationwide Dialogs Focus on State Climate Action

By Eban Goodstein Becca Krasky is a first year student at Macalester College in Minnesota. If someday she has kids, they will be college-age around the year 2045. She will be in her late 40’s. And by that year, we will know the future of the earth. We will know …

Power Dialog to discuss implementation of the Clean Power Plan in PA

The national initiative pairs college students from across the state with key decision makers and legislators     Penn State faculty and students from University Park are collaborating with several other Pennsylvania institutions and the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) on the PA Power Dialog — one of 30 Power …