Tag: <span>ecosystems</span>

Lauren Frisch BCEP ’14 Co-Authors Study in March Issue of Marine Policy

[show_avatar email=267 avatar_size=200]We are thrilled to announce Bard Center for Environmental Policy grad Lauren Frisch ’14  has co-authored the study “Gauging Public Perceptions of Ocean Acidification in Alaska”, a continuation of her master’s thesis research work with  faculty advisors Gautam Sethi and Jennifer Phillips using statistical tools and research methods she learned while at BardCEP. …

It Is Never “Just” Water

I recently finished a short stint interning with the Sierra Business Council in Truckee, California. With them I researched and wrote a series of advocacy white papers to help build support and form a coalition for an allocation from the proposed 2014 state water bond measures for upper watershed land …

We Need Water Markets if We’re to Solve the Global Water Crisis

Reposted from Huffington Post, originally published 10/10/13 By Karen Corey, MSEP/MI ’13, Program Assistant for Forest Trends Four years ago, Kenyan farmer Chege Mwangi was a desperate man. Climate change had thrown off the timing of his harvests, and torrential rains were washing his topsoil into Lake Naivasha — where flower-growers were suffering, …

Slow Water for Oaxaca: Help us Make this Project Possible

By Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva and Izabel Hoyos Ever wonder what your life would be like if you had water once a week? What solutions would you adopt to help your community? (Previous CEP Students in Oaxaca) At the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) students have the opportunity to address …

What do we want from “Local Food Systems”?

By Dr. Jennifer Phillips Over the coming decades, climate change will challenge regional, national, and global economies.   Some regions of the world will see agricultural productivity drop by 50% by 2080, while regions will experience increased productivity.   Part of the adaptation process will be to build resilience into …

Film Review: Symphony of the Soil

  On February 25, 2013, I joined Bard students, faculty, staff, and community members packed into Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center to view Deborah Koons Garcia’s documentary Symphony of the Soil. Here is my review. I’ve essentially lost faith in food system and agriculture-related documentaries. More often than not, the dramatic …

Brief Note on the Survival of Humanity

Hello Bard CEP readers! It’s that time of year again – Summer is upon the Northern Hemisphere. For those of us still involved in the world of schooling, that means a time of rest, and, perhaps also a time of change. Over the past few months, I’ve found myself moving away …

Hay Agua o No Hay Agua (Is there water or not?)

As part of a new curriculum this year Bard Center for Environmental Policy created a two week long January class called J-term. This term would allow students to focus on one of three different areas of study, either land trusts, biochar, or water management. Oh and did I mention the …

Dr. Eleanor Sterling Answers Sea Turtle Questions for NY Times

Last month we posted CEP adjunct professor Dr. Eleanor Sterling’s article on NYTimes.com’s “Scientists at Work” blog about her work in the isolated Northern Pacific atoll (a special kind of island) called Palmyra Atoll. A Q&A was recently posted on their blog, in which she answers readers’ questions about sea …

Dr. Eleanor Sterling — World War II Still Shapes Atoll’s Ecosystem

Crossposted from adjunct faculty member Dr. Eleanor Sterling’s NYTimes “Scientist at Work” blog I often wonder what life was like for military personnel who served on Palmyra Atoll during World War II. We see ghosts of their activities — whether abandoned buildings and ancient, odd-shaped light bulbs or structural changes …