Environmental Studies at Colby College

14 faculty and 40 courses in Environmental Studies at Colby College.

Faculty

• Karena McKinney, Associate Professor (Chemistry) h-index 29
  Notable: “Measurement of Gas-Phase Hydroperoxides by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry” (2006) · 421 citations
• Denise Bruesewitz, Director, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “Nitrate removal, communities of denitrifiers and adverse effects in different carbon substrates for use in denitrification beds” (2011) · 289 citations
• Justin Becknell, Associate Director, Assistant Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests” (2016) · 1,179 citations
• Amanda Gallinat, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research” (2015) · 532 citations
• Whitney King, Professor (Chemistry) h-index 18
  Notable: “Methods for reactive oxygen species (ROS) detection in aqueous environments” (2012) · 437 citations
• Alison Bates, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me: Wind turbines, culture, landscapes, and sound impressions” (2015) · 99 citations
• Gail Carlson, Assistant Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Stereochemistry of binding of the tetrapeptide acetyl-Pro-Ala-Pro-Tyr-NH2 to porcine pancreatic elastase” (1986) · 84 citations
• Abby Pearson, Laboratory Instructor II
• Christopher Walker, Assistant Professor (English)
• Manuel Gimond, Research Scientist
• Meg Boyle, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Philip Nyhus, Professor
• Stacy-ann Robinson, Assistant Professor
• Torrance Hanley, Visiting Assistant Professor

Courses

• Environment and Society ES118s
• Ecology and Natural History in Maine: Thoreau to Rachel Carson ES120Cs
• Environmental Impacts of Pandemics on Human and Natural Systems ES122
• Environmental Activism ES126f
• Sustainable and Socially Responsible Business ES143
• Introduction to Ocean Science ES161f
• Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing ES212s
• Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis ES214f
• Exploratory Data Analysis in R ES218s
• Weather, Climate, and Society ES215
• Environmental Chemistry ES217
• Creative Environmental Storytelling ES224
• Nature and the Built Environment ES228
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics ES231fs
• Environmental Policy ES233f
• International Environmental Policy ES234s
• Agroecosystems ES236s
• Renewable Energy Systems ES238s
• Seafood Forensics: Uncovering Fraud in Ocean Food Systems ES239f
• Development and Environmental Issues in Contemporary China ES241s
• Marine Conservation and Policy ES242s
• Environmental Ethics ES243s
• Marine Communities ES244
• Climate Geoengineering: Evaluating Strategies to Sequester CO2 ES247
• Earth Surface Processes: Introduction to Geomorphology ES254f
• Chemistry of Aqueous Environments ES261s
• Earth's Climate: Past, Present, and Future ES262s
• Global Public Health ES265
• Ecology ES271f
• Global Change Ecology ES276s
• Environmental Humanities: Stories of Crisis and Resilience ES283fs
• Conservation Biology ES319f
• Sustainability Science: From Theory to Practice ES323s
• Environmental Justice ES325
• International Climate and Environmental Justice ES326f
• Forest Ecosystems ES338s
• Marine Fisheries Management ES344
• Marine Ecology ES354
• Aquatic Ecosystems ES356
• Climate Change, Justice, and Health ES364f

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 2026-07-02.