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EUS is an interdisciplinary program that examines the interdependence of human societies and the physical environment.
The program strives to ensure that students have a substantial background in the physical and social sciences, humanities, economics, and policy, while enhancing their understanding of the relationship between built and natural environments.
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Looking for the Environmental Studies Concentration?

The Environmental and Urban Studies Program (EUS) is now open only to students who were enrolled at the College during the 2021–22 academic year. New students who enroll beginning in the fall of 2022 may select Environmental Studies (ES) as a concentration. Please visit the ES website for concentration information and requirements.

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Taking Community Science on the Road

Taking Community Science on the Road

Follow EUS Associate Professor Eli Dueker as he takes the newly outfitted mobile community science RV Anchor’s Drop on its maiden voyage across the United States this summer. Air quality measurements will be taken at each stop, and every body of water encountered will be Planktoscoped. Stay tuned!

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Faculty Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight

Gidon Eshel Named One of the Top Influential Earth Scientists Today

Gidon Eshel is a research professor specializing in oceanography, climatology, and geophysics. He attended Technion-Israel Institute of Technology before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD in mathematical physics, and was a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has served as staff scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago.

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New Publications

Small-scale integrated farming systems can abate continental-scale nutrient leakage
Because beef is the most resource intensive of all commonly used food items, several alternative agriculture models strive to develop improved beef production models, many by enhancing in-farm cycling of key nutrients using livestock, esp. cattle. Because the dietary potential of such models is currently unknown, in this paper I thus ask whether “sustainable beef” is a viable alternative to the current US food system. I devise a mathematical model of a mixed use nutrient conserving farm producing human plant based food and forage which feed a core intensive beef operation, using no synthetic fertilizer. I find tha if widely deployed, such farms could produce a diverse, high-quality nationwide diet distinctly better than today’s mean US diet with 70–80% of today’s beef consumption, protein delivery 5–40% higher than today’s, and emitting only ≈10% of today’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This model is thus potentially a viable, scalable environmentally superior alternative to the current US food system, but only when combined with the commitment to substantially enhance our reliance on plant food.

Disproportionate contributions to air quality-related deaths: The latest case against red meat

Exploring sustainable aquaculture development using a nutrition-sensitive approach
The idea is this: In many developing nations, especially in east Asia, the local diet relies heavily on seafood and aquaculture as a key and absolutely essential nutrient source that averts widespread famine and malnutrition. But acquiring or producing this food can be and often is environmentally devastating. We created an optimization framework for allocation of resources (water, coastal area, land) that produces a diet for the  two billion or so local people in the relevant areas with the demonstrably least environmental damage while maximizing nutritive delivery. We show that with this “smart” allocation dramatically increases the number of people they currently sustain while reducing markedly environmental degradation including mangrove clear cutting.

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Affiliated Programs and Institutes

  • Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities
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  • Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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  • FDR Presidential Library and Museum
  • Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
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Trustee Leader Scholar 

Trustee Leader Scholar 

The TLS program supports leadership development in the context of hands-on, student-initiated, community engagement projects.

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