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New CBFS Ph.D. – Dr. Taylor Brown
Taylor Brown is a new PhD at the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. Taylor defended her thesis “A tale of two species: Coregonine early life history and recruitment dynamics across the Laurentian Great Lakes “ in October 2025...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Ecosystems
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CALS, Einhorn Center launch new E3 milestone celebrating student impact
More than 60 students from the Department of Global Development, the Lund Fellows Program for Regenerative Agriculture and the CALS Global Fellows Program presented on their engaged learning experiences at the second CALS Engaged and Experiential Learning Symposium.
  • CALS Global Fellows Program
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Field Note

From dairy to trailblazing career in public service: Ashley Randle ’11
This year, Ashley E. Randle ’11, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, led the effort to launch the first “Year of Youth in Agriculture” in Massachusetts, with the goal to engage youth in farming. The initiative...
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
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Field Note

USDA intern Sabine Paz-Le Draoulec ’26 supports tribal ag initiatives
Sabine Paz-Le Draoulec ’26, an environment and sustainability major from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, spent her summer in Washington, D.C., with the United States Department of Agriculture through its Future Leaders in Public Service Internship...
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
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New publication from CBFS
Sol Lisboa, Rebecca Schneider, Lars Rudstam and Todd Walter published a paper on the phosphorus budget of Oneida Lake, and the sources of P into the lake over the summer months. This was based on Lisboa’s PhD work on Oneida Lake. They found that...
  • Biological Field Station
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Ecosystems
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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Melissa Guzman
Academic focus: Biodiversity big data and insect conservation Research summary: The goal of my research is to help improve insect conservation by developing statistical methods that better use all available data. While the distribution of some...
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
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Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson
Academic focus: Ocean conservation and social-ecological systems. Research summary: I study the relationship between people and the ocean, ranging from Indigenous Pacific Islander communities traditionally managing coral reefs to geopolitical...
  • American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
  • Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Development Sociology
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