Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 48.08
Liaison Maddie LoDico
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

Colby College
ER-17: Departments Involved in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.91 / 6.00 Paul Greenwood
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs & Associate Dean of Faculty
Academic and Administrative Vice Presidents Office
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The total number of academic departments that conduct research:
33

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The number of academic departments in which at least one faculty member engages in sustainability research:
12

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A list of academic departments in which at least one faculty member engages in sustainability research:
Chemistry Science, Technology & Society Environmental Studies Biology Geology Economics Philosophy Anthropology English Administrative Science Education History

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The website URL where the sustainability research inventory that includes the departments engaged in sustainability research is posted:
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A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the departments engaged in sustainability research:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
: Eight of the Colby faculty listed above are involved in the Belgrade Lakes Watershed Sustainability Project, where Colby faculty and students are collaborating with conservation organizations, area lake associations, and faculty and students from the University of Maine system to form interdisciplinary teams with stakeholder participation to understand the impact of landscape and lake-ecosystem changes in the development of central Maine. The Belgrade Lakes region is being used as a model because it provides a unique laboratory to understand the complex dynamics between environmental, biogeochemical, and socio- economic systems. This work is funded through a National Science Foundation, Maine EPSCoR grant and is part of Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. For more information about this project go to: http://web.colby.edu/epscor/about/

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