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Environmental Studies

Welcome to the Environmental Studies Alumni webpage. This website serves to connect alumni, students, faculty, and staff that pursued environmental studies while at Bowdoin. We are currently redeveloping the site to further enhance this communication. In order to make this website fully functional, we need information from you! Please take a moment to complete our online survey. This survey helps us keep track of the variety of careers, academic paths, and locations of our diverse alums.

The majority of alumni have continued their academic pursuit in Environmental Studies by applying it directly to their career. Those who have chosen not to pursue an ES related career comment, nonetheless, that their experience with the program had an impact on how they perceive the world.

Alumni Profiles

Julia Ledewitz '08, awarded prestigious Switzer Environmental Fellowship

Julia has been named a recipient of the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship for 2011.  One of the nation’s most prestigious environmental policy recognitions, Switzer has been supporting emerging leaders committed to solving real world environmental problems since 1986. Julia has been the Sustainability Coordinator for Massachusetts Institute of Technology since graduating from Bowdoin in 2008 with a B.A. in Environmental Science, History and a minor in Biology …

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Nick Cohen '09 Environmental Studies and Spanish
Psi Upsilon Fellow, summer 2008 for the Town of Brunswick

If you walk into Nick Cohen’s living room, you will find a framed photo of ticks. To an outsider, a framed photo of blood-sucking parasites may seem like a strange decoration to have in the living room …

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Brooks Winner '10-Ten Years of the Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship Program
Class 2010

Brooks Winner ’10 had his fellowship with the City of Bath in 2008. During his time as a fellow, Brooks worked on community organizing, carbon accounting and inventorying, and sustainability planning …

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Ben Martens
Class of '06

Ben Martens '06  Major: Environmental Studies and  Government, Minor: Biology  Position: Policy Analyst, CCCHFA.  Post college, Ben worked for election campaign of New Hampshire Governor John Lynch. Following the election, he worked for a period in the Governors office …

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Auden Schendler on Climate Change and the Search for Meaning

Invited by the student group Green Global Initiatives, Auden Schendler ’92 returned to Bowdoin to give a Common Hour talk entitled, “Great Hope, Great Fear: Climate Change and the Search for Meaning, from Neanderthals to Extreme Skiers.” He is author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution and is vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company in Colorado. Besides giving an inspirational yet down-to-earth talk about how to approach climate change, Schendler was frank and funny about the seeming irony in his professional role. “I’m an environmental guy working at a ski resort,” he said …

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