Professor Anthony Ladd in the Environment Program has recently (2015-16) written many books and articles on the very important topic of Fracking. He has also presented, facilitated, and organized a variety of conferences sharing his findings on Fracking. Find out more here.
Parkway Partners Selects Wetlands Educator as 2016 Green Spirit Award Recipient
Dr. Bob Thomas to receive award
At Annual Feast Gala to Be Held Oct. 9
NEW ORLEANS (July 5, 2016) – Parkway Partners today announced that Dr. Bob Thomas will receive the organization’s annual Green Spirit Award at its Feast With Leah gala on Oct. 9, as two legends and a legendary event join forces.
Tropical Ecology Program
Loyola’s Tropical Ecology study abroad program combines lectures and discussions on campus with field trips to Central America.
Take a look at the video of what our Tropical Ecology class did this May ’16.
Loyola professor and students teach children about invertebrates at BASIN (Building Active Stewardship In New Orleans)
Loyola’s Environment Program’s Presence at the 1st Network Meeting of the International Association for Plant UV Research (UV4Plants) at Pécs, Hungary
Destiny Karash-Givens was given the environmental major for excellence in service award this year at Loyola’s Honors Convocation.
Destiny has been involved in all of these service activities during her time at Loyola. These activities have included:
Allison Davis was given the environmental major for excellence in research award this year at Loyola’s Honors Convocation.
This award is presented to a staff member who demonstrates outstanding service above and beyond what is required and expected. Mark has and continues to do outstanding work in the Loyola greenhouse.
Dr. Kara Thompson is an assistant professor of English & American Studies at the College of William & Mary, and her work focuses on questions of indigeneity, national borders, and temporality. Her recent research interests have taken her into the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, and at Loyola Prof. Thompson will be presenting new work on how hydraulic fracturing relies on specific ways of reading the earth. Her talk at Loyola, “Fracking and the Art of Subtext,” shows how resource extraction depends on narrative structure.
Atlas of Science
April 14, 2016
Safely basking in the sun: Some plants apply sunscreen only when they need it