Ari Sanjar outlines the Environment and Society course discussion on Social Network Analysis.

Mengyu (Amber) Liang recaps the Environment and Society course discussions on Socio-Ecological Systems Resilience and Sustainability.

Environment and Society (MEES 620) student, Kirk Saylor, details the course discussion on Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Models.

Aubrey Tingler assesses the perspectives of the environmental and ecological sciences for the UMCES Environment and Society course.

By: Enid C. Muñoz Ruiz … Our last Environment and Society class was structured differently than normal. This was the second lecture where everyone was required to attend class in person. I was thrilled to visit the MEES lecture halls with all of their unique artifacts that I’d heard about from other students. Instead of our awe-inspiring instructors, Michael Paolisso, Bill Dennison and Suzi Spitzer, teaching us, we gave them a break by lecturing in their place.

By: Hamani Wilson … During the most recent lecture of the Environment & Society course at the University of Maryland College Park, our discussion centered on Political Ecology.

By: Kayle Krieg … Sandra “Sandy” Cheeks is a scientist and inventor who is working on a research project funded by Texas (as explained in Episode 70a: Chimps Ahoy). For those of you who have never seen Spongebob Squarepants, Sandy Cheeks is a squirrel that is living underwater in Bikini Bottom alongside various marine creatures, including the series namesake, Spongebob, and his best friend (forever) Patrick Star.

By: Taylor Gedeon … Last week, the Environment and Society class discussed the need for transdisciplinary research, which cuts across typically separate disciplines in order to solve the complex problems facing our world today. This week in class, we examined one example of such research, which is a conceptual model that attempts to link human and environmental dynamics – the socio-ecological system, or SES.

By: Enid C. Muñoz Ruiz … Ingredients:

By: Kayle Krieg … In the Disney animated movie, “The Little Mermaid,” adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's original story,1 there is a scene in which Ariel sits down to dinner with Prince Eric and Grimsby. She is very excited to see a fork at the table and begins brushing her hair enthusiastically. Thanks to some misinformation received from Scuttle (the seagull), she believes that this “dinglehopper” is intended for grooming, not eating.