Author Archives: Micah Ziegler

From the tropical forests of Borneo to the mountain of Science Hill, Yale has a new reason to be proud of its faculty. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies professor Lisa Curran was awarded a five-year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship — known colloquially as a “genius grant.” One of 25 »

Yale now has two ONES, or Outstanding New Environmental Scientists, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The titles, and the NIEHS funding, went to pharmacology professor Sven-Eric Jordt and to forestry and environmental studies professor Michelle Bell. The primary goal of the awards is to provide a strong foundation for outstanding scientists »

Although Forrest Berkley ’75 may have had a change of heart some years ago — he went to Harvard Law and Business schools after his Yale days — he seems to be coming around now. After retiring from an asset management firm that grew from handling $1 billion to $120 billion, Berkley is back on »

One three-atom molecule has garnered much attention. A recent study by researchers led by Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies professor Michelle Bell and her colleagues at Johns Hopkins University has concluded that even low concentrations of ground-level ozone molecules are associated with higher mortality rates. The team examined data from 98 urban counties, »

A single Yale professor is trying to make his voice heard over a cacophony of snowmobiles. Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, a professor of medicine with the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, sent a letter to Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis concerning noise levels in the park. The letter, originally sent Dec. 19, 2005, was »

The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is working to add another coat of green to its sustainability credentials. Starting this year, the Environment School will offset 100 percent of its electricity use through June 2008 by purchasing renewable energy credits from Sterling Planet, a clean energy provider. Since 2003, FES has purchased certificates »

The Yale School of Architecture will soon be painting its blue roots green — figuratively, at least. The Architecture School and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will soon offer a joint degree program allowing future Yale architects to design sustainably, or to build with the environment in mind. The program, which was developed »

With a National Science Foundation grant awarded to professor Peter Raymond, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will be able to dramatically expand watershed science research during the next five years, FES Dean Gustave Speth said Thursday. Raymond studies the carbon biogeochemistry of streams, rivers and estuaries and how stream carbon export varies »

As the December frost set in, some Yalies headed north to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Quebec, to discuss global warming issues this week. While some attendees arrived at the conference as part of a School of Forestry and Environmental Studies seminar on the political economy of climate change, other participants arrived »

Students gathered in the Dwight Hall Common Room last night to discuss environmental leadership beyond Yale’s Gothic gates. Green Corps Associate Director Cindy Kang ’99 spoke on “The Future of Environmental Leadership: Winning Victories from the Grassroots Up,” discussing environmental activism with the Yale Student Environmental Coalition. She also encouraged graduating seniors to apply to »

While Yale undergraduates are preparing for an upcoming intercollegiate rivalry, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies is collaborating for the first time with top environmental schools across the country to recruit students into environmental career fields. On Thursday, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies joined with their counterparts at Duke University, the »

While many scientists and policymakers are concerned with global warming and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, Peter Raymond, a professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, researches a different, wetter aspect of the carbon cycle. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, one of the principle causes of global warming, is only one stage of the larger carbon »