Dr. Cheryl Murphy is a Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Director of the Center for PFAS Research at Michigan State University. She is also an affiliate for the Center for Integrative Toxicology, Center for Water Sciences, the Environmental Science and Public Policy program, and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program. Her current research focuses on how information collected on an individual translates across higher levels of biological organization. Using fish as a model organism, she explores how changes in gene expression and the physiological processes occurring within an individual translate to behavioral changes and ecologically relevant endpoints such as reproduction and growth, how short term phenotypic changes in expressed traits alter long term genetic change and affect life history traits, and how anthropogenic influences such as contaminants and other stressors impact such relationships and affect populations or communities of fish. Dr. Murphy is a global research leader in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of more than 4,000 chemicals used in everyday items such as carpeting, textiles, footwear and paper food packaging. Through her work with the Center for PFAS Research, Dr. Murphy’s projects quantify exposure to livestock, field crops, fish and wildlife, develop and test remediation strategies and technologies, and explore safe alternatives to PFAS.

Click here to listen to episode 58 on PFAS featuring Dr. Murphy’s interview.

Dr. Michela Biasutti is a Lamont Associate Research Professor of Ocean and Climate Physics in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Dr. Biasutti studies the factors that control the location and intensity of rainfall in the tropics. She is a leading expert on the link between climate change and monsoons, and has organized meetings, written book chapters, and published an extensive body of peer-reviewed papers on this relationship.

Click here to listen to episode 56 on Monsoons featuring Dr. Biasutti’s interview.

Dr. Alana Grech is an Associate Professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and the Assistant Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. At the Centre, Dr. Grech is also Program Leader of Research Program 2: Ecosystem Dynamics: Past, Present and Future. Dr. Grech’s research uses conservation biogeography theory and spatial technologies to inform the conservation of Australia’s coastal environment. Specifically, she develops new methodologies for cumulative impact assessment (CIA), and explores the implications of CIA in environmental decision-making, policy and practice. Most of her research is conducted in remote coastal and marine areas of northern Australia, including the Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, and Gulf of Carpentaria. Dr. Grech is an Associate Editor of Diversity and Distributions and Associate Dean Research Education at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies’ JCU node.

Click here to listen to episode 55 on Dugongs featuring Dr. Grech’s interview.

Dr. Harriet Bulkeley is a Professor of Geography at Durham University in Durham, England. Her research largely explores climate change and the roles of cities and other non-state actors in responding to this global challenge. Dr. Bulkeley has led the Naturvation project: a 4-year project funded by the European Commission and involving a team of 80 researchers from 14 institutions in six European countries seeking to understand the role that nature-based solutions can play in responding to urban sustainability challenges. Dr. Bulkeley is also involved in the ReInvent-EU project, which aims to encourage decarbonisation in 4 key areas: plastic, steel, paper and meat and dairy. Dr. Bulkeley has published over 50 books and articles, including An Urban Politics of Climate Change: Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions (Routledge, 2015) and Low Carbon Communities and Social Justice (2012). She is also an editor of the journal Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. In 2018, Dr. Bulkeley won the Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award in recognition of the policy impact of her work on climate change.

Click here to listen to episode 54 on Urban Greenspace featuring Dr. Bulkeley’s interview.

Dr. Jared Margulies is an Assistant Professor of Political Ecology at the University of Alabama. While a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the BIOSEC project in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, Dr. Margulies began studying illegal wildlife trade, with an emphasis on illegal trade in cactus and succulent plants, as well as the geopolitical and racialized contours of illegal wildlife trade interventions. This ultimately led to several years of multi-sited, multi-species fieldwork on the largely unexplored global wildlife trade in succulents, which he is currently developing into a book.

Dr. Suzana Camargo is the Marie Tharp Lamont Research Professor of Ocean and Climate Physics in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Prior to joining Lamont-Doherty, Dr. Camargo was a scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia, an Associate Professor at São Paulo State University in Brazil, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany. Dr. Camargo is one of the world’s leading experts on tropical cyclones and their relationship to the climate. Over the last 20 years, she has made important contributions to our understanding of how tropical cyclones are affected by natural climate variations, like El Niño; the influence of human-induced climate change on tropical cyclones, including the evaluation of simulations of tropical cyclones in climate models, and to the practice of seasonal climate forecasting of tropical cyclone activity. Dr. Camargo has served as the Co-Chair of the U.S. CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group, a member of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Task Forces on Model Diagnostics, Subseasonal to Seasonal variability, and model processes in CMIP5. She is currently a member of the World Meteorological Organization’s Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts from tropical cyclones, and the Secretary of the American Geophysical Union’s Hazards Section. She is also an Editor for Geophysical Research Letters, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate. In 2020, Dr. Camargo was awarded the WMO Committee on Climate Variability and Change’s Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award.

Click here to listen to episode 52 on Tropical Cyclones featuring Dr. Camargo’s interview.

Dr. Kyla Tienhaara is Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment and Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies and Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Prior to joining the faculty at Queen’s, she held several positions at the Australian National University, including most recently an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funded research fellowship. Her main area of interest is the intersection between environmental governance and the global economic system. One area of her work has examined investor-state disputes concerning environmental regulation that are brought to international arbitration under bilateral and regional investment agreements. She is the author of The Expropriation of Environmental Governance: Protecting Foreign Investors at the Expense of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Click here to listen to episode 51 on Investor-State Dispute Settlements featuring Dr. Tienhaara’s interview.

Dr. Mark Hamann is an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. Most of his research interests are associated with understanding biology and improving management prospects of marine wildlife such as marine turtles and dugong. Dr. Hamann has published dozens of papers on the impacts of climate change and plastic pollution on marine wildlife. His recent work has also studied sea turtle behavior.

Click here to listen to episode 50 on Sea Turtles featuring Dr. Hamann’s interview.

Dr. Zdravka Tzankova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include US and comparative environmental policy and governance, corporate sustainability & supply chain greening, disruptive approaches to correcting for regulatory failures and overcoming blocked political opportunities, and interactions between private environmental governance and public environmental policy and regulation. Her earlier work focused largely on fisheries policy and sustainable fisheries. Now, Dr. Tzankova writes largely about corporate renewable energy and antibiotics in agriculture.

Click here to listen to episode 49 on Chicken featuring Dr. Tzankova’s interview.

Dr. Cédric Fichot is an Assistant Professor of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Dr. Fichot’s research focuses on estuarine and coastal biogeochemistry and water quality, and combines elements of marine optics, remote sensing, organic geochemistry and photochemistry to promote a better quantitative understanding of various types of interactions between terrestrial and marine environments and their perturbations by climate change and human activities. Dr. Fichot leads BU’s Aquatic Photo-biogeochemistry & Remote Sensing Lab, which conducts experiments and develops new techniques in order to model, quantify and understand processes regulating carbon biogeochemistry, water quality and sediment dynamics across the land-ocean continuum and assess their vulnerability to climate variability and human-driven changes.

Click here to listen to episode 48 on Ultraviolet Radiation featuring Dr. Fichot’s interview.

Dr. Lina Mtwana Nordlund is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Natural Resources, and Sustainable Development at Uppsala University in Sweden. Dr. Nordlund is interested in the coastal environment. Her research uses a multi- and transdisciplinary approach to provide a more holistic view of the environmental challenges coastal seas are facing. Of special interest are strong sustainable development and social-ecological systems, with focus on seagrass, fisheries, ecosystem services and management. Dr. Nordlund is also the Founder and Director of the Indo-Pacific Seagrass Network—a research network that aims to build capacity and perform standardized, coupled social-ecological surveys of seagrass and associated fisheries across the Indo-Pacific.

Click here to listen to episode 47 on Seagrass featuring Dr. Nordlund’s interview.

Dr. Teresa Kramarz is an Associate Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She directs Munk One, a first year undergraduate program on Global Innovation, and co-directs the Environmental Governance Lab. She is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance research alliance, and Co-Director of the Accountability in Global Environmental Task Force. Her research focuses on global environmental governance, international organizations and public-private partnerships, specifically as it pertains to accountability in global environmental governance, World Bank partnerships, and extractives and development. Her latest books are Forgotten Values: The World Bank and Environmental Partnerships (MIT Press, 2020) and Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (MIT Press, 2019).

Click here to listen to episode 46 on The World Bank featuring Dr. Kramarz’ interview.

Dr. Yixian Sun is an Assistant Professor of International Development at the University of Bath. Dr. Sun’s research focuses on transnational governance, environmental politics, and sustainable consumption and production in the Global South. He seeks to explain whether and how different types of governance initiatives can help large emerging economies, China in particular, achieve sustainability transitions. Dr. Sun is also interested in the sustainability impact of China-funded development projects around the world. His work has been published in Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Politics, Global Food Security and Review of International Political Economy. His book studying China’s engagement in transnational sustainability certification will be published by the MIT Press (Earth System Governance Series). Dr. Sun is also a writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, having attended various meetings of multilateral environmental treaties.

Click here to listen to episode 45 on Tea featuring Dr. Sun’s interview.

Dr. Kylie Pitt is a Professor in the School of Environment and Science and the Discipline Head of Marine Science at Griffith University in Australia. Her research focuses on understanding the population dynamics of jellyfish (from local to global scales), their responses to changing ocean conditions, and their interactions with people and coastal industries. She leads the Griffith Sea Jellies Research Laboratory, a state-of-the-art research facility specialized for studying jellyfish, which is located within Sea World’s Sea Jellies Illuminated exhibit and on display to the public. Kylie engages with industry by leading Griffith’s strategic partnership with Sea World and her membership of the Gold Coast Waterways Authority’s Science and Innovation Advisory Committee and The Moreton Bay Foundation’s Research Advisory Committee.

Click here to listen to episode 44 on Jellyfish featuring Dr. Pitt’s interview.

Dr. Cristina Balboa is an Associate Professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, and the Director of Baruch’s Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management. Her research incorporates international relations, comparative policy and organization theory to demonstrate how internal organizational traits (i.e. capacity, structure, ethos, diversity and leadership) contribute to or detract from the balanced accountability of the political institutions of private environmental governance – from nonprofits to networks, certification mechanisms, and global governance organizations. Her work has been recognized through fellowships at Harvard University’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science to Achieve Results (EPA-STAR) program, the Switzer Foundation and the Environmental Leadership Program. Prior to her academic work, Dr. Balboa spent almost a decade working in nonprofits in Washington D.C. and Ecuador on environmental issues in Latin America, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Balboa is also the author of The Paradox of Scale: How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2018).

Click here to listen to episode 43 on NGOs featuring Dr. Balboa’s interview.

Dr. Lemir Teron is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Dr. Teron’s thinking and research deliberates on problems related to inequality, conflict and empowerment. The implications are often times though not exclusively environmental, covering topics such as energy justice, urban studies, environmental justice, coastal communities, environmental law, and political ecology. Dr. Teron is also on the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council’s Environmental Justice task force and an advisor to the New York Civil Liberties Union’s I-81 campaign. In 2019, Dr. Teron won the Distinguished Faculty Member for Teaching Excellence Award from ESF’s Undergraduate Student Association.

Click here to listen to episode 42 on Brownfields and Superfund Sites featuring Dr. Teron’s interview.

Dr. Kate Neville is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment. Her research interests are in global environmental politics, with a focus on resource governance, global commodity markets, and contested water and energy projects. Dr. Neville is the author of Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Click here to listen to episode 41 on Fracking featuring Dr. Neville’s interview.

Dr. Stacy VanDeveer is a Professor of Global Governance and Human Security and the Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research interests include EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental policymaking and institutions, comparative environmental politics, connections between environmental and security issues, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption. Dr. VanDeveer co-edited the journal Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press) from 2013-17, and has authored or edited ten books and almost 100 articles, book chapters, working papers and reports.

Click here to listen to episode 40 on Rethinking Natural Resources featuring Dr. VanDeveer’s interview.

Dr. Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert is a Lecturer of Global Forest Ecology at the University of Birmingham. Dr. Esquivel-Muelbert has focused her work on Neotropical forests combining biogeography with forest dynamics to study the impacts of global change on tree communities and tree turnover. Being originally from Brazil, Dr. Esquivel-Muelbert has focused a large portion of her research on the Amazon Rainforest and the ways climate change impacts it, which has resulted in numerous published papers.

Click here to listen to episode 39 on the Amazon Rainforest featuring Dr. Esquivel-Muelbert’s interview.

Dr. Jessica Templeton is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the London School of Economics, and the Director of LSE100 – LSE’s flagship interdisciplinary course taken by all first- and second-year undergraduates. With expertise in global environmental politics and regulation of hazardous chemicals, Dr. Templeton is also a writer, editor and team leader for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a nonpartisan publication of the International Institute for Sustainable Development that analyses multilateral environmental negotiations conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. She is particularly interested in global regulation of hazardous substances, and has worked extensively with the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

Click here to listen to episode 38 on DDT featuring Dr. Templeton’s interview.

Dr. Natalie Hunt is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hunt’s research uses an interdisciplinary approach to exploring sustainability of conventional and alternative cropping systems. She is interested in modeling the life cycle impacts of diversified, integrated, and cover cropping systems on air, soil, and water quality, as well as the fossil energy efficiency, human health damages, and climate change impacts of these systems. Dr. Hunt has co-authored several papers on environmental and health impacts of maize agriculture and how diversified cropping systems can yield improved environmental and economic outcomes.

Click here to listen to episode 37 on Corn featuring Dr. Hunt’s interview.

Dr. Michael Kingsford is a Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. Dr. Kingsford was recently the Dean of the JCU College of Science and Engineering, and has served as the President of the Australian Coral Reef Society, the Director of One Tree Island Research Station, a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovative Coral Reef Studies, and a member of the Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation and the Museum of Tropical Queensland advisory committees. He has published one hundred and ninety six publications including three major books: Studying Temperate Marine Environment: A Handbook for Ecologists, and the first and second editions of Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management. A major focus of his research has been on connectivity of reef fish populations, environmental records in corals and fishes and deadly irukandji jellyfishes.

Click here to listen to episode 36 on The Great Barrier Reef featuring Dr. Kingsford’s interview.

Kottie Christie-Blick is an instructor at the University of San Diego, and a Climate Education Consultant. She works with educators – elementary through high school – helping them design climate change and sustainability lessons that fit with their required curriculum. She is also an award-winning classroom teacher, member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Planet Stewards Program, and webmaster of the popular website, KidsAgainstClimateChange.com.

Click here to listen to episode 35 on Elementary Education featuring Kottie’s interview.

Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor is a Lecturer in the School of Environment, Water and Natural Resources Management at South Eastern Kenya University. She is also a National Geographic Explorer, and Education and Science Officer of the Society for Conservation Biology, Africa Chapter. She has studied the valuation and mapping of mangrove ecosystem services in Mida Creek, and has received a National Geographic Society Early Career Grant to carry out a project on mapping of mangrove ecosystem services flow in Mtwapa Creek. She is also interested in adopting the ecosystem services approach to the management of aquatic ecosystems, particularly the mangroves of Kenya. She leads a research group that will study the management and conservation of mangroves as an important ecosystem along the coast. She has also been working on enhancing community involvement and participation in conservation through tree planting initiatives.

Click here to listen to episode 34 on Mangrove Forests featuring Dr. Awuor Owuor’s interview.

Dr. Travis Wagner is a Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Wagner’s research focuses on sustainable material management especially the application of zero waste principles to eliminate, reduce, and recover single-use consumer plastics with innovative environmental policy instruments. Prior to teaching, Dr. Wagner worked for a series of environmental firms focusing on a variety of environmental projects including solid and hazardous waste policy development; contaminated site remediation; pollution prevention; and regulatory compliance. He has published several papers on policy instruments to reduce the use of single-use plastics such as straws and bags.

Click here to listen to episode 33 on Plastic Straws featuring Dr. Wagner’s interview.

Dr. Peter Dauvergne is a Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. His research covers the politics of social movements, consumption, technology, and corporations, especially the consequences for social inequality and ecosystem degradation in the global South. Dr. Dauvergne has published 18 books, including AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, September 2020), Environmentalism of the Rich (MIT, 2016, winner of APSA’s Michael Harrington Book Award), Protest Inc. (with G. LeBaron, Polity, 2014, shortlisted for BISA’s IPE Book Prize), and The Shadows of Consumption (MIT, 2008, winner of the Gerald L. Young Book Award). He is also the founding and past editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics. In 2016, the International Studies Association presented him with its Distinguished Scholar Award for Environmental Studies, and in 2018, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Click here to listen to episode 32 on Artificial Intelligence featuring Dr. Dauvergne’s interview.

Dr. Žiga Malek is an Assistant Professor in Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. His main research interests are the changes to land systems and the associated consequences to sustainable use of land and ecosystems. Dr. Malek has experience in working on various sustainability issues from all around the world: wetland protection in the Pacific, woodland degradation in East Africa, lagoon management in the Caribbean, land use and water interactions in Northern Africa and Middle East, agricultural expansion in the Amazon basin, forest management in Central Asia, multifunctional landscapes in the Mediterranean, and smallholder adaptation to future climate change in tropical regions, to name a few. He is also involved in numerous consultancy activities, with consultancy projects commissioned among others by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United Nations Development Programme, European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank, European Environment Agency and Fairtrade International.

Click here to listen to episode 31 on Landslides featuring Dr. Malek’s interview.

Dr. Susan Park is a Professor of Global Governance at the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Park’s research examines both Accountability in Global Environmental Governance, and the rise, spread and efficacy of accountability mechanisms that have been created by Multilateral Development Banks in order to redress the negative impacts of development projects on local communities. She is Associate Editor of Global Environmental Politics, and was the chair of the fifth Oceanic International Studies Conference, a biennial event that is the largest conference on international relations and international studies in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Park was the editor of Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap.

Click here to listen to episode 30 on International Accountability featuring Dr. Park’s interview.

Dr. Pamela Templer is a Professor of Biology at Boston University. Dr. Templer leads the Templer Lab, which explores how plant-microbial interactions influence carbon exchange, nitrogen retention, forest productivity, and water and air quality, and collaborates with governments, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. Dr. Templer has done extensive fieldwork in temperate forests of the northeastern United States, urban sites throughout the Greater Boston Area, and tropical forests of Mexico. Some of her recent work studied the effects of snowpack decline and soil freezing on northern forest tree growth, including the sugar maples that are home to New England’s maple syrup industry.

Click here to listen to episode 29 on Maple Syrup featuring Dr. Templer’s interview.

Dr. Kevin Lane is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University. Dr. Lane’s research focuses on air pollution, built environment, urbanization, and impacts of climate change on health in local, national, and international settings. Currently, Dr. Lane serves as Principal Investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration ASCENT Project 18 Community Measurements of Aviation Emissions Contribution to Ambient Air Quality. Additionally, he examines air pollution and built environment effects on cardio-metabolic health with the Population study of Urban, Rural and Semi-urban Endovascular Disease and Holistic Intervention Study (PURSE-HIS), and is a designated NIEHS health disparities career development researcher with the Center for Research on Environmental and Social Stressors in Housing across the life course (CRESSH) to examine the interactions between PM2.5, NO2 and social stressors on the associations with preterm and low birth weight.

Click here to listen to episode 28 on Airplanes featuring Dr. Lane’s interview.

Dr. Peter Fox-Penner is Founder and Director of the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy and Professor of Practice at the Questrom School of Business, where he co-directs the Impact Measurement and Allocation Program (IMAP) of research in sustainable finance. In addition, he is a Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Impact Partners, one of the largest dedicated clean energy private equity fund groups in the world and an academic advisor to The Brattle Group. He is on the global leadership council of the World Resources Institute and on the advisory boards of Mobility Impact Partners, the National Regulatory Research Institute’s Training Initiative, and PEACE. Dr. Fox-Penner also formerly served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is the author of numerous published articles and books, including the highly acclaimed Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities (Island Press, 2010) and its sequel Power After Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid (Harvard University Press, 2020). His research and writing interests are in the areas of electric power strategy, regulation, and governance; energy and climate policy; sustainable finance; and the relationships between public and private economic activity.

Click here to listen to episode 27 on Electrification featuring Dr. Fox-Penner’s interview.

Dr. Michael Gevelber is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Dr. Gevelber’s research includes improving energy efficiency of buildings including developing a new system identification approach that helps optimize air flow in existing commercial buildings, and conducting energy assessments for urban housing and universities. Dr. Gevelber has lead a class which has conducted the first detailed energy audit for the Boston University’s Campus, which included identifying and implementing possible conservation options. He serves on the university’s Sustainability Committee, co-chairs the university’s energy working group, is a member of the universities Clean Energy and Environmental Initiative, which is focused on integrating the research efforts across the various colleges on campus, and serves on Newton’s Energy Commission. He is also the founder and manager of Cyber Materials LLC, which develops advanced control solutions to improve manufacturing processes, and a co-founder of Aeolus Building Efficiency, winner of the 2013 energy efficiency track of the MIT Clean Energy Contest.

Click here to listen to episode 26 on Ventilation featuring Dr. Gevelber’s interview.

Dennis Carlberg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Earth & Environment department at Boston University and the Associate Vice President of University Sustainability. Dennis co-chairs the Climate Resilience Committee at the Urban Land Institute – Boston, which was formed in 2011 to educate and motivate the Boston-area real estate community to actively address climate change, sea level rise, climate resilience planning and policy development. Dennis currently serves on the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Higher Ed Working Group, the City of Boston’s Zero Waste Advisory Committee, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) STARS Steering Committee. At Boston University he serves on the advisory boards of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, City Planning Program and Urban Affairs, the Urban Climate Research Initiative, and the URBAN Graduate Program. Dennis is responsible for managing the implementation and ongoing evolution, evaluation and reporting of Boston University’s Climate Action Plan.

Click here to listen to episode 25 on Carbon Neutrality featuring Dennis’s interview.

Dr. Graeme Auld is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Canada. Dr. Auld’s research focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy, global environmental governance, and the rise of private governance and authority. Much of his work examines the formation, evolution, and impacts of non-state and hybrid forms of global governance across economic sectors. He is the author of Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification, which explores product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively.

Click here to listen to episode 24 on Organic and Fair Trade Certifications featuring Dr. Auld’s interview.

Dr. Michael Dietze is an Associate Professor of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Dr. Dietze leads the Ecological Forecasting Laboratory, the mission of which is to better understand and predict ecological systems. Much of the current work in the lab is organized under two broad umbrellas, the Near-term Ecological Forecasting Initiative (NEFI) and the PEcAn project. NEFI is focused on addressing overarching questions about ecological predictability while developing forecasts for a wide range of ecological processes (vegetation phenology and land-surface fluxes; ticks, tick-borne disease, and small mammal hosts; soil microbiome; aquatic productivity and algal blooms) and advancing statistical and informatics tools for ecological forecasting. PEcAn is focused more specifically on the terrestrial carbon cycle, improving our capacity for carbon MRV (monitoring, reporting, verification), forecasting, data assimilation, and multi-model benchmarking and calibration within the land component of Earth System models. Dr. Dietze is the author of Ecological Forecasting, and a coauthor of the 2020 study “Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world,” which was published in Science Magazine.

Click here to listen to episode 23 on Old-Growth Forests featuring Dr. Dietze’s interview.

Dr. Douglas Arion is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Donald D. Hedberg Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Carthage College. Dr. Arion is also the Executive Director of Mountains of Stars, a partnership of colleges that offers astronomy-based programs and activities to the public to promote “environmental awareness from a cosmic perspective.” Prior to Carthage, he was head of the Applied Physics and Engineering Division and Assistant Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation, developing and directing research in radiation effects, space systems, and electro- and optical-mechanical systems. He also serves on the dark sky preservation commissions of both the American Astronomical Society and International Astronomical Union, and is an International Dark Sky Ambassador.

Click here to listen to episode 22 on Light Pollution featuring Dr. Arion’s interview.

Dr. Luz Claudio is a tenured professor of environmental medicine and public health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is also Chief of the Division of International Health. Her research focuses on how environmental factors affect health in vulnerable populations such as children and those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged. She is best known for studies on health disparities in children and for her work in global health. Her recent paper, “Combined association of BTEX and material hardship on ADHD-suggestive behaviours among a nationally representative sample of US children,” found a link between ADHD and toxic air pollutants in marginalized communities.

Click here to listen to episode 21 on ADHD featuring Dr. Claudio’s interview.

Dr. Jennifer Allan is a Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales. Through contributing to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin – the de facto record of global environmental negotiations, Dr. Allan has attended roughly 40 UN conferences where states negotiate the rules of global climate governance, as well as chemicals and wastes management, and has published over 100 Bulletins with her ENB colleagues. Her recent work focuses on the politics of sustainable post-COVID recoveries, including green stimulus packages in the UK and the emergence of the green recovery norm globally. She is part of the COP26 Universities Network, a growing group of more than 30 UK-based universities that created a briefing this year for policymakers outlining a path to net-zero emissions economic recovery from COVID-19.

Click here to listen to episode 20 on the Economic Recovery from Coronavirus featuring Jennifer Allan’s interview.

Dr. Noelle Eckley Selin is Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and Director of MIT’s Technology and Policy Program. Her research uses modeling and analysis to inform sustainability decision-making, focusing on issues involving air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury. She received her PhD and M.A. (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and B.A. (Environmental Science and Public Policy) from Harvard University. Her work has focused on atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, as well as interactions between science and policy in international environmental negotiations. She is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award (2011), a Leopold Leadership fellow (2013-2014), Kavli fellow (2015), a member of the Global Young Academy (2014-2018), an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Institute Fellow (2016-2017), and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2021).

Click here to listen to Episode 19 on Mercury featuring Noelle Selin’s interview.

Dr. Patricia Keen is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Energy Management at the New York Institute of Technology, Vancouver Campus. Dr. Keen’s research focuses on antimicrobial resistance genes and antimicrobial resistant organisms as environmental contaminants, environmental effects of trace metal, inorganic and organic pollutants on water quality, and the fate and effects of emerging contaminants in the wastewater treatment process. She has published several papers on antimicrobial resistance and co-edited two books: Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Wastewater Treatment Process.

Click here to listen to Episode 18 on Wastewater Treatment Plants featuring Patricia Keen’s interview.

Dr. Julie Zähringer is a Senior Research Scientist in the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Dr. Zähringer’s research focuses on land use changes, ecosystem services, and human well-being in the context of land investments and conservation in view of sustainable development in East Africa and South-East Asia. She has done extensive fieldwork in Northeastern Madagascar, and published several papers on cash crops in the region such as vanilla and clove. She is also a Co-leader of a scientific working group on “Telecoupling Research Towards Sustainable Transformation of Land Systems” within Future Earth’s Global Land Programme.

Click here to listen to Episode 17 on Vanilla featuring Julie Zähringer’s interview.

Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte is an Assistant Professor of U.S. History and material culture at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Dr. Le Zotte also authored the book From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies (UNC Press, 2017), which looks at how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Her work has appeared at CNNOpinion.com, smithsonianmag.com, Racked.com, theconversation.com, as well as in Winterthur Portfolio, The New England Quarterly, and Business History.

Click here to listen to Episode 16 on Fast Fashion featuring Jennifer Le Zotte’s interview.

Dr. Christopher R. Conz is a lecturer at Tufts University teaching African History, and he teaches writing seminars at Boston University on African environmental studies. His studies focus on the intersections of knowledge, agriculture, health, and development in Lesotho. This year, he published a paper entitled “(Un)Cultivating the Disease of Maize: Pellagra, Policy and Nutrition Practice in Lesotho, c.1933–1963” in The Journal of Southern African Studies.

Click here to listen to Episode 15 on Pellagra featuring Christopher Conz’s interview.

Dr. Madhu Dutta-Koehler is an Associate Professor of Practice and Director, City Planning and Urban Affairs at the Boston University Metropolitan College. Dr. Dutta-Koehler’s current research interests include climate change adaptation — particularly in the urban Global South — and environmental sustainability in the built environment. Dr. Dutta-Koehler has over fifteen years of experience in the field of urban planning, design, and architecture as an educator, researcher, and practitioner. Dr. Dutta-Koehler also serves on the Faculty Advisory Boards for the Initiative on Cities and the Institute of Sustainable Energy, and is a Faculty Associate at the Pardee Center for the Longer Term Future at Boston University.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 14 on Megacities featuring Madhu Dutta-Koehler’s interview.

Dr. Syma A. Ebbin is an Associate Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources. Her research has focused on developing better understandings of subsistence harvesting of coastal resources, marine spatial planning efforts in Long Island Sound, participatory management approaches including the Native American co-management of Pacific salmon in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and soft shell clam co-management in the Georges River region of Maine. She is also the Research Coordinator of the Connecticut Sea Grant at UConn.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 13 on Wild Salmon featuring Syma Ebbin’s interview.

Dr. Adil Najam is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Before becoming the Dean, Dr. Najam served as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan and as the Director of the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Dr. Najam was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, work for which the scientific panel was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the public understanding of climate change science. In 2008 he was invited by the United Nations Secretary-General to serve on the UN Committee on Development (CDP). Dr. Najam has written over 100 scholarly papers and book chapters.

Click here to listen to Episode 12 on Rethinking Climate Change, featuring Adil Najam’s interview.

Dr. Valerie Pasquarella is a Research Assistant Professor at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Earth and Environment. Her research focuses mainly on the intersection of remote sensing and ecology along with the mapping and monitoring of landscape dynamics. In 2018, Dr. Pasquarella published a paper in the journal Biological Invasions on gypsy moth related defoliation in Southern New England.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 11 on Gypsy Moths featuring Valerie Pasquarella’s interview.

Dr. Henrik Selin is the Associate Dean for Studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is also an Associate Professor of International Relations specializing in global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is the author of the book EU and Environmental Governance, and is the co-editor of two books: Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance, and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 10 on the United Nations Environment Programme featuring Henrik Selin’s interview.

Dr. Elizabeth Garland is a Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has been Director of the EMPH Division of Preventive Medicine and Community Health since 2002 and as Director of the General Preventive Medicine Residency since 1995. She is also the Principle Investigator on a Children’s Environmental Health Foundation study to evaluate the impact of LEED-certified green housing on asthma, obesity, and social factors in the South Bronx.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 9 on Asthma featuring Elizabeth Garland’s interview.

Dr. Nathan Phillips is an Earth & Environment Professor at Boston University and the Acting Director of the BU Institute for Sustainability’s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment as it pertains to environmental change, particularly in cities. Dr. Phillips has been one of the most vocal critics of the Weymouth Compressor Station project, and has worked closely with the local community group Fore River Residents Against Compressor Station (FRRACS).

Click here to listen to Episode 8 on Natural Gas Compressor Stations featuring Nathan Phillips’ interview.

Dr. Robert Buchwaldt is a Research Assistant Professor in the Earth & Environment department at Boston University, specifically focused on geology and earth science. One of Dr. Buchwaldt’s primary research interests is plate tectonics, which in addition to causing earthquakes, cause volcanoes, and help geologists trace the earth’s history and climate back millions of years. Dr. Buchwaldt has published dozens of scientific papers on geology, acts as a reviewer on several ranking journals including Nature, and was a scientific adviser on BBC’s “Madagascar” and “Earth” with David Attenborough.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 7 on Earthquakes featuring Robert Buchwaldt’s interview.

Dr. Julie Klinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. Dr. Klinger’s research focuses on the geography, geology and geopolitics of development and resource usage, with a particular emphasis on social and environmental sustainability. Klinger is the author of Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes which won the 2017 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography given by the American Association of Geographers (AAG).⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 6 on Rare Earth Minerals featuring Julie Klinger’s interview.

Dr. Rachael Garrett is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at ETH Zürich. Dr. Garrett’s research examines interactions between agriculture, ecosystem services, and economic development to better define what sustainable food systems look like and how to achieve them. She has spent years interviewing Brazilian farmers to better understand the challenges of extensive cattle ranching and deforestation in the Amazon. She is also on the editorial board for LAND.

Click here to listen to Episode 5 on Beef featuring Rachael Garrett’s interview.

Rick Reibstein is a Lecturer in Boston University’s Earth & Environment department, the Principal Director of the Coalition for a Public Conversation on Lead, and the Founder and Director of the Regulated Community Compliance Project which is focused on ensuring that real estate professionals understand the federal requirements pertaining to lead paint in residences. Professor Reibstein previously worked for 27 years as the Assistant Director of the Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance, where he helped nearly 2,000 facilities to reduce the use of toxics. From 2000-2003, he worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, mostly enforcing the lead disclosure rule.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 4 on Lead Paint featuring Rick Reibstein’s interview.

Dr. Sarah Phillips is a Professor of History at Boston University and the Co-Executive Editor of Cambridge’s Modern American History journal. Some of her primary research interests are history of land use and conservation, environmental history, and history of the American West. She is the author of the book This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal, which posits a new interpretation of the New Deal, saying that it used conversation and environmental policy to economically rehabilitate rural areas and in doing so, gained their support for large government land management institutions.⁠

Click here to listen to Episode 3 on Yosemite National Park featuring Sarah Phillips’ interview.

Christopher Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of Teed & Brown, a company that “combines science with practical knowledge to provide unique lawn care solutions” for Connecticut and New York homes. Prior to launching Teed & Brown, Chris received a Bachelor’s in Turfgrass Science at Penn State, and served as Assistant Superintendent at Rockrimmon Country Club in Stamford, CT. Teed & Brown is known for investing in safe, high quality pest control products, and employs strategies like Integrated Pest Management.

Click here to listen to Episode 2 on Lawn Pesticides featuring Christopher Brown’s interview.

Dr. Cutler Cleveland is a Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University and Associate Director of the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy. Dr. Cleveland’s research and teaching focus on the connection among energy, climate change, and sustainability. He recently served as the principal investigator for Carbon Free Boston, a technical assessment of strategies with a significant focus in transportation policy, to assist the City of Boston in reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.

Click here to listen to Episode 1 on Traffic, featuring Cutler Cleveland’s interview.