Dr. Edward B. Barbier's main expertise is natural resource and development economics as well as the interface between economics and ecology.

Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato is a science journalist who writes for such outlets as National Geographic, Everyday Health, and Scientific American. She was the #sciencechat guest on Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

Environmental science major Clint Valentine is always looking for an adventure.

Biology and environmental science student Clint Valen­tine is always searching for his next big adven­ture.

Matt Hall, @kwinkunks, is a geologist turned geophysicist with Agile*. He was the #sciencechat guest on Wednesday, October 16.

Social insects such as ants, ter­mites, and some bees and wasps live in a sort of eternal “air­plane envi­ron­ment."

Social insects such as ants, ter­mites, and some bees and wasps live in a sort of eternal “air­plane envi­ron­ment.”

During Nadia Aamoum’s six-​​month inter­na­tional co-​​op in the island nation of Sey­chelles, north of Mada­gascar, the ocean was her work­place.

Retired Marine Col. Mark Mykleby said at a campus lecture this week that the nation's biggest problem is global unsustainability and it will take behavioral change, not national strategy, to fix it.

Most species are content with just one form of reproduction, but not for the coral p. damicornis. These guys make babies sexually and asexually. Doctoral candidate David Combosch wants to know why.

Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby titled his lecture, "Sustainability: A 21st Century American Grand Strategy."

Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby titled his lecture, "Sustainability: A 21st Century American Grand Strategy."

The Marine Science Center has welcomed several new faculty members whose focus is urban coastal sustainability.

Urban coastal sus­tain­ability becomes an ever more pressing con­cern as more than half of the world’s pop­u­la­tion flocks to its shores—the places where cities thrive.