Ted Ames H'20—commercial fisherman, scientific researcher, educator, and advocate for marine conservation and sustainable fisheries in the Gulf of Maine—talks with Geoff Trussell '90, director and professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern College of Science, in the first in a series of fireside chats with the College's 2020 honorary degree recipients.
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Research by Phil Camill and his colleagues about the future climate impacts of peatlands has been highlighted in Eos, an Earth and space science news source.
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From Denmark to Brazil, from South Korea to Spain, these scholars have secured funding to head overseas to teach English or conduct research in the next academic year.
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This fall, the biochemistry and EOS major heads to the University of Cambridge, where she will pursue a master’s in earth science as part of a transatlantic scholarship program set up nearly sixty years ago by Winston Churchill.
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This year's Kibbe Science Lecturer was Ayana Johnson, a marine biologist who has founded a think tank to help coastal cities adapt to climate change.
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Eight Bowdoin professors—including one assistant and one associate professor—have been appointed to named chairs at the College in recognition of their achievements as scholars and educators.
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In a new article, Bowdoin's Phil Camill and a team of researchers say they've come up with a more accurate and powerful method for assessing the amount of carbon stored in Earth's northern permafrost.
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With a team of astrobiologists, Zack Burton ’14 has discovered that underneath the dry, barren landscape of Mars, ice could be melting and mixing with underground salts to cause surface landslides.
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More space for research, teaching, and living is now available at the 118-acre facility, which is located about thirteen miles from the Bowdoin campus and offers a wider range of opportunities for students and researchers.
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After Bowdoin, Irby taught science at a prep school for three years before attending grad school at William & Mary, where he earned a doctorate in marine science, and then moving into the policy realm.
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