Masters Program


  1. Building Climate Resilience After Irma: An Interview with F&ES Alum Lia Nicholson

    Hurricane Irma devastated parts of the Caribbean last week, including the island of Barbuda, known for its sandy beaches and abudant wildlife. We reached out to Lia Nicholson '14 M.E.M. who works on climate change adaptation and mitigation for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to learn more about living with the threat of hurricanes and what small island nations

  3. Using Real-World Experience To Tackle Real-World Complexity

    Carmen Guerrero Pérez ’10 M.E.M., director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Caribbean Environmental Protection Division, will receive the 2019 Prospect Street Award for her years of work in environmental conservation and community engagement in Puerto Rico.

  5. Corn: A Love Story, From Seed to Market

    anthony boutard corn grower Anthony Boutard
    Anthony Boutard loves corn. But not the type of corn most Americans are familiar with: On his 144-acre organic farm in northwestern Oregon, Boutard M.F. ‘89 grows a variety of corn called 8-row flint corn. Unlike the variety that he refers to as “industrialized hybrid yellow” corn, now ubiquitous across the Midwest, 8-row flint corn is colorful, bursting with deep

  9. Helping Companies Avoid ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach to Sustainability Solutions

    neil yeoh workshop 1 (1) Neil Yeoh leads a workshop during a Climate Braintrust event at the World Economic Forum’s San Francisco office in 2018. 
    Neil Yeoh ’20 M.E.M. understands as well as anyone that solving the world’s sustainability challenges will require experts working together across many disciplines. Over the past decade, he has examined these problems from a few different perspectives: as an engineer, as a management consultant, and, more recently, as an investor in climate solutions. 
     
    Last year, wanting to further expand

  10. Alum Introduces New Yorkers to The Forest in Their Own Backyard

    The city of New York contains more than 20,000 acres of forests and wetlands, a fact that even many New Yorkers might not realize. Sarah Charlop-Powers ’09 M.E.M. is trying to change that: her nonprofit is working to restore and conserve these natural spaces — and to get more city residents outdoors.

  15. A Systems Thinker Uses Market Forces to Strengthen Environmental Conservation

    Guillermo Castilleja has been described as a “true systems thinker,” something he says he developed while at F&ES. In an interview, Castilleja, a senior fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, shares his vision for the foundation, his advice to students, and where he finds hope as a conservationist.