When you’re walking though the woods, what you can see around you—those towering trees, flitting birds, tiny flowers peeking out from the damp forest floor—is only part of the rich forest ecosystem. To discover the rest, you must look underground.
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Measuring an immeasurable commodity is not for everyone, but Lan Nguyen is up for the challenge. In her chosen field of environmental economics, Lan strives to calculate the value of vital ecosystems that occupy our planet, such as the Chesapeake Bay and the coastal mangrove forests of SE Asia.
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Nine years ago, Derek Lee was leaving a career in California to embark on a set of new, interconnected adventures: beginning a PhD at Dartmouth, studying giraffes in Tanzania, and starting a wildlife conservation nonprofit. We are delighted to share Lee’s success in these ventures!
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Hunter Snyder, a PhD student in the Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems and Society Program, was invited by Professor Ross Virginia to join an alumni expedition to the Arctic in 2018.
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California’s fire season has been lasting longer and growing more impactful with each passing year.
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