Del Rose Hooker (left) and Ingrid Thyr (right) Del Rose Through a CES grant, Del Rose ’21 went to Ecuador with Cristina Mancilla ’20 to study Ithomiini, or clear wing, butterflies in a cloud forest on the Eastern Andes. She investigated the relationship between regional diversity of clear… Continue reading »
Cecilia Del Cid, the Assistant Director of the Davis Center at Williams College, is a biologist and has a Masters in Forestry. She said that her passion for this work started when her parents bought a small track of jungle in Guatemala. She had grown up in Guatemala… Continue reading »
On this particularly cool day in early October, Bathsheba Demuth and Julia Philips took us on a journey to a much colder part of the world. Both of them have lived in and authored recent books about the arctic region, and they shared some of what they… Continue reading »
As people shuffled into the Log this past, they were pleasantly surprised to smell delicious Alaskan salmon. Josh Pierson ‘00 and Marc Barreda ’99, co founders of “Papa’s Catch Salmon”, returned to Williamstown to give a long lunch talk about how they got involved in Alaskan commercial fishing… Continue reading »
Greg Watson, the current Director for Policy at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, gave a Log Lunch talk that focused on the question of how to reconcile environmental quality with economic equality and equity. He emphasized the importance of equity, because it is not enough for… Continue reading »
April 26th, 2019 Jamie Samowitz and Jessica Vecchia are the co-directors of Roots Rising, a youth development program in Pittsfield, MA. Their mission is to empower youth and build community in a place where many young adults need extra guidance. Jess Samowitz (left) with Jamie Vecchia Adolescence is a… Continue reading »
April 12th, 2019 Dr. Art Gold, a professor of watershed hydrology at the University of Rhode Island, spoke at Log Lunch today about the degradation of Fiji’s coral coast due to excess nitrogen. High levels of nitrogen entering the coastal waters results in Sargassum… Continue reading »
April 5th, 2019 Julia Goren ’01 (left) with Diane Fish Diane Fish, Deputy Director of the Adirondack Council, and Julia Goren ’01, Director of the Adirondack VISION Project, gave a Log Lunch talk on the Adirondack Park, NY–the largest park in the lower 48 U.S. states. This is the only… Continue reading »
March 8th, 2019 At this Log Lunch, Judith Schwartz gave a lecture on the research she’s been doing as a freelance writer and journalist. Her most recent book, Cows Save the Planet, is about soil, in short. But it is also about busting environmental myths, like the common argument that… Continue reading »
February 22nd, 2019 At the last Log Lunch, Professor Ron Bassar told the crowd about the four years he spent before joining the Biology department at Williams last year. He studies the guppy–a popular pet fish in the U.S., which actually derives from the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He… Continue reading »
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