Sustainable Procurement Key to Lowering Carbon Footprint
As more companies focus on reducing their carbon footprint, there’s one element that is key but often overlooked — reducing emissions from their supply chains.
Doctoral Program
Doctoral Program
Study Linking Microscale Processes with Landscape Impacts Wins Bormann Prize
Ashley Keiser ’16 Ph.D., who studies how microbes in the soil respond to changing conditions aboveground, has won the 2017 F. Herbert Bormann Prize.Eleanor Sterling Recognized With F&ES Distinguished Alumni Award
Conservationist Eleanor Sterling ’83 B.A., ’93 Ph.D., chief scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation,has spent her illustrious career combining biological conservation, research, and education.Solving the Ivory Deadlock
In an interview Gao Yufang ’14 M.E.Sc., who is now a doctoral student at F&ES, discusses a new paper he co-authored in Science that calls for a more iterative process that recognizes different value systems in order to save the world's disappearing elephants.Setting the Standard in The Cleanup of Toxic Lead
For more than four decades, Ian von Lindern M.F.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’80 has been at the center of a massive cleanup of lead pollution in Idaho. The strategies he has helped develop are now being used to tackle health threats globally.Klee, F&ES Alum, to Succeed Esty As Connecticut's DEEP Commissioner
Robert K. Klee M.E.S. ’99, J.D. ’04, Ph.D. ’05 has been nominated to succeed Daniel C. Esty as commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.In DEEP: Building a Bridge Between Science and Policy
By many measures, the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) has enjoyed a remarkable transformation during the three-plus years since Robert Klee ’99 M.E.S. ’04 J.D. ’05 Ph.D. joined its top ranks.‘Resurrection’ of Dormant Eggs Reveals Unexpected Evolutionary Response to Toxins
sensitive to heavy metals as concentrations increased over time contrary to expectation.Respite from the Urban Heat Island? Study Eyes Costs of Irrigation as Remedy
A new Yale study will examine whether irrigation of green spaces to mitigate the urban heat island effect in some of the world’s driest cities will be worth the cost — namely, drawing down precious and increasingly diminished water resources.Researchers Find Increases in Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Outpacing Global Predictions
In a recent study, a team of researchers — including YSE professor Peter Raymond and postdoctoral fellow Taylor Maavara — show nitrous oxide emissions are increasing at a “devastating” rate, faster than predictions introduced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Forest Research in the Congo Basin Earns the 2020 Bormann Prize
Peter Umunay’s research, which explores ways to find a balance between conservation and economic development in the Congo Basin, earned him the 2020 F. Herbert Bormann Prize.Research on Fracking Impacts Wins 2019 Bormann Prize
Given rare access to a hydraulic fracturing well site in Pennsylvania, an F&ES doctoral student revealed a surprising finding about the impacts of fracking on groundwater — research that earned her the 2019 F. Herbert Bormann Prize2019 Research Conference Showcases Scholarship of F&ES Students, Postdocs
annual F&ES Research Conference on April 11-12.Recent Doctoral Grad Honored For Contributions to Soil Science
Noah Sokol ’18 Ph.D. has received the Truog Soil Science Outstanding Dissertation Award, a national award that recognizes outstanding contributions to soil science.Outgoing Connecticut DEEP Commissioner Comes Back to F&ES
Robert Klee, who spent nearly a decade in the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) — becoming commissioner in 2015 — this semester will return to F&ES, where he earned his master's degree and Ph.D.