Natural Resources Conservation and Research at Bates College

8 faculty and 21 courses in Natural Resources Conservation and Research at Bates College.

Faculty

• Malcolm S. Hill, Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Biology h-index 21
  I am broadly interested in the evolutionary placement of sponges in the broader scope of metazoan history, and the role sponges and their symbionts play in the communities in which they reside. Research in my lab has focused on the phylogen
• Rebecca R. Minor, Visiting Lecturer and Assistant in Instruction h-index 13
• Shreya Arora, Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences h-index 11
  Es on reconstructing past earthquake chronologies and magnitudes in the Himalayas and the Andes of Argentina. Her recent publication, “Earthquake rupture variability along the central seismic gap segment (78°–82°E) of the Himalayan Frontal
• Beverly J. Johnson, Charles A. Dana Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
  Es on understanding carbon cycling in Maine Blue Carbon ecosystems as a means to mitigate climate change. She and colleagues have funding to measure methane emissions, carbon sequestration and carbon stocks in tidally restricted salt marshe
• Charlotte H. Connop, Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
  Es on investigating the processes which lead to changes in the distribution of elements throughout Earth’s crust. Her research integrates field work, geochemistry, petrochronology, modeling and ‘big data’ analyses to decip
• Daniel T. Chupik, Visiting Lecturer in Earth and Climate Sciences
• Nick Balascio, Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
• Rebecca C. Payne, Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Physics
  Culminating in the writing of a senior thesis. Students register for PHYS 457 in the fall semester. Majors writing an honors thesis register for both PHYS 457 and 458. Faculty Login Earth and Climate Sciences Search these pages Dr. Beverl

Courses

• Earth Surface Environments and Environmental Change/Lab EACS 103
• Plate Tectonics and Hazards/Lab EACS 104
• Earth's Climate System/Lab EACS 109
• Oceanography EACS 110
• Marine Science EACS 113
• Sedimentary Processes and Environments/Lab EACS 210
• Mapping and GIS/Lab EACS 217
• Dynamical Climate/Lab EACS 220
• Earth Materials/Lab EACS 223
• Hydrogeology EACS 226
• Earth Structure and Dynamics/Lab EACS 230
• Environmental Geochemistry/Lab EACS 240
• Water and Watersheds/Lab EACS 241
• Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics EACS 302
• Sedimentary Basins and Global Change EACS 303
• Quaternary Paleoclimatology EACS 310
• Lakes and Environmental Change EACS 311
• Stable Isotope Geochemistry EACS 341
• The Lithosphere EACS 383
• Senior Thesis EACS 457
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.