Masters Program


  2. 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.

  3. Time to Move Beyond Treaties: A New Framework for Sustainable Action

    At the recent conference, “Rio+20 to 2015: A New Architecture for a Sustainable World,” which was hosted by F&ES and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), top experts in climate and sustainability issues discussed what new global structures for enabling solutions might look like.

  5. 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

  6. Reforestation Hubs, ‘Coming Soon’ to a City Near You

    Cambium Carbon, an initiative founded by YSE students to combat climate change and revitalize urban communities by reimagining the urban tree lifecycle, has earned a $200,000 Natural Climate Solution Accelerator Grant from The Nature Conservancy.

  8. 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

  11. 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.

  14. Shaping a New Kind of Conservation

    peter seligmann
    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