Environmental Studies at Colby College
14 faculty and 40 courses in Environmental Studies at Colby College.
14faculty listed
40courses
18.7avg h-index (enriched)
#5of 6 for Natural Resources research
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.