Profiles / Features


  1. Return to Rwanda

    F&ES Professors Amy Vedder and Bill Weber have worked on dozens of conservation projects across the globe. But they are best known for their efforts to conserve mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a place where they still bring Yale students every year.

  4. Remembering Jonah Adels

    During his time on campus Jonah Adels was often found sitting at the warbly piano in Sage Hall, filling the stairway and halls with his music. The remembrance below—by the Class of 2014—is now displayed above Sage Hall's new piano*, with a plaque that begins "Please play this piano in memory of Jonah."
    Jonah at the piano Jonah Adels, playing piano in the vestibule outside Bowers Auditorium during August of 2012.
    On October 2nd, 2013, the School

  7. A New Line of Defense For Wild Salmon Populations

    Guido Rahr Pacific Salmon
    The 20th century was not kind to Pacific salmon. Dams on rivers throughout Washington and Oregon blocked fish from their spawning grounds, agriculture turned rivers like California’s San Joaquin into muddy trickles, and mismanaged fisheries across the Pacific Rim harvested salmon at unsustainable rates. To compensate for the resultant declines, hatcheries released billions of fish into rivers throughout the Northwest

  9. Healing Western Landscapes From Conservation’s ‘Radical Center’

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    avery anderson profile Avery Anderson Sponholtz
    When Avery Anderson Sponholtz ’07 M.E.M. arrived in New Mexico for a summer internship with the Quivira Coalition in 2007, her first thought was that she might as well have gone to work on the moon. The parched land was riven by dry creek beds and brushed with only a sparse patina of grass. Scrubby desert willows and piñon pines

  12. Conservation Through Cocktails

    Are you ready for a jujube and hawthorn martini? A new company created by a group of ethnobotanists, including Ashley DuVal ’10 M.E.Sc., thinks so.

  13. Professional Symbiosis

    Over the past three decades Marian Chertow has advanced the growing field of industrial ecology across the world — and inspired generations of Yale students to assert themselves as leaders of the field.

  14. Pioneering Scientist Bridges Research and Policy to Create a More Sustainable Future

    Over the past four decades, Jerry Melillo '72 M.F.S., '77 Ph.D., has established himself as one of the world's preeminent scientists, expanding our understanding of the how terrestrial ecosystems respond to climate change. Now, the real challenge, he says, is for scientists to make their research understandable and useful to decision makers. 

  15. Shaping a New Kind of Conservation

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    In the late 1980s, the fast food giant McDonald’s was targeted by some critics who charged that the company was stripping Central America of its rainforests in order raise beef for its burgers.
     
    At the time, the company was working with a relatively new group called Conservation International (CI) — co-founded by Peter Seligmann ’74 M.F.S. — which aimed