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Ryan Wall ’20 and Jay Carhart ’21 are contributing to Hamilton’s growing culture of environmentalism as summer sustainability interns. In this role, Wall and Carhart are working with Director of Environmental Protection and Safety Brian Hansen on projects ranging from maintaining the many trails around campus, overseeing recycling efforts at weekly community lunches, to improving the reforestation area located on the former golf course.

Ravena Pernanand ’21, Rachel Pike ’21, and Abigail Roller ’21 spent the past couple months learning about local climate patterns, analyzing local climate projections, and promoting climate justice.

Kai Scarangella ’21 says the Richard Morse Award she received from the Adirondack Research Consortium and Ecology and Environment will help her attend graduate school. “Earning my doctorate will help me achieve my goal of becoming the director of an environmental remediation and restoration research institute,” she says.

Here's what Aaron Strong, Hamilton's new assistant professor of environmental studies, had to say in a recent interview with student writer Majestic Terhune ’21.

Jared Belsky ’19 presented joint research at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, Calif., — and won an award for the work about winegrowers in Umbria, Italy.

Three Hamilton environmental studies students and their professor had credentials to attend a U.N. meeting where, for the first time, all the countries of the world hashed out details of a global treaty governing the "high seas."

Looking for an internship that fit his love for biology, Jesse Yu ’19, came upon an opportunity in a lab at New York University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, and he snagged a position there spring semester. Later he was off to STARS, a program in California.

Nick Pace '19 is interning at New York Restoration Project, a land conservancy agency in NYC that oversees 80 acres of parkland and 52 community gardens in all five boroughs.

For much of the summer, home base for Lilly Yangchen ’20 is a wildlife reserve in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. She has a grant to examine the prospects for expanding ecotourism in the Himalayan country.

If you’ve walked or run through the Glen recently and noticed signs that identified where you’re going, you have Hayley Berliner ’19 and Nick Pace ’19 to thank.