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Sessions for Professional Growth at AESS 2025

The AESS Professional Development Committee is delighted to present a listing of all sessions related to PD that will be held at our June conference. Full session details can be found at our conference event website: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/AESS2025/sessions
Monday, June 23, 2025
1C: Lone Wolves and the Fierce Green Fire: A Workshop for Faculty Independently Managing Interdisciplinary Environmental Programs During Crisis June 23, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
1D: Bringing “Many Care, Just Differently” Into Your Scholarship & Teaching June 23, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
1E: Teaching, Scholarship, and Community Action under Trump 2.0 June 23, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
2A: Campuses as Living Labs: Local Actions, Community Engagement, and Environmental Practice June 23, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
2D: A review of core courses in Environmental Science curricula: Connecting best practices to on-the-ground program realities June 23, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
2C: New Applications for Documentary Film in Environmental Studies Pedagogy and Social Justice June 23, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
3B: Collaborating for Climate Resilience in Uncertain Times June 24, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
3C: The Lighter Side of Climate: Using Playfulness in our Sustainability Classrooms June 24, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
4D: Pedagogical Approaches to Capstone Experiences in Interdisciplinary Environmental Programs June 24, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
4C: Amplifying Sustainability in Higher Education Through Organizational Behavior Change June 24, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
4B: Community, Climate, and Public Health: Building Environmental Resilience Across Systems June 24, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
5E: DEI in 2025 Discussion June 25, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
5C: Is It You or Is It Burnout? – Acknowledging and Coping with Burnout (Symposia) June 25, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
5B: Why a true interdisciplinary curriculum is worth it; why it’s not easy; and strategies for how to get there.June 25, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
6B: Mentoring Excellence: Best Practices for Mentors and Mentees June 25, 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM
7C: Creating a Regional Environmental Studies Community: A View from the Greater Twin Cities June 25, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Good to Know: dates and times are accurate as of publishing. Changes are reflected in real-time on the event website schedule. Plus, aessconference.org has all event-related details.
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Environmental Studies Catalog

Polity 2022 Environmental Studies Catalog Now Online

This year’s catalogue showcases all of Polity’s new and recent environmental studies titles, including:

Key features

  • Fully searchable, from cover to cover
  • Each entry is hyperlinked to the related page on our website
  • Ordering books and examination copies is easy

Our textbooks are available as e-texts via major e-book platforms.

If you are interested in adopting any of our books as an e-textbook, please get in touch with us at usmarketing@politybooks.com.

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2019 Election Results

AESS is excited to announce the results of the 2019 elections. To read more about the elected, visit the election page. Newly elected officially take office following the close of the annual AESS conference.

Richard S. Groover
Reynolds Community College, Richmond VA

AESS Treasurer

Groover is the environmental committee chairperson, a Fellow of the Academy, and former treasurer of the Academy http://vacadsci.org/. Board of Trustee member of the Science Museum of Virginia. Author of The Environmental Almanac of Virginia, second edition   http://www.virginiaenvironmentalalmanac.com/. Member of the Governor’s Climate Commission (2014-2015). Founder of the Virginia Roundtable of Environmental Science Professors.

Laureen Elgert

Laureen Elgert
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

AESS Board Member

Lissy Goralnik
Michigan State University
Department of Community Sustainability

AESS Board Member

Abby Lindsay Ostovar American University

AESS Board Member

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Nirajan Dhakal
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Health Sciences Program
Spelman College

Nominations Committee

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Sharon Moran
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Nominations Committee

William San Martin
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Humanities & Arts https://www.williamsanmartin.com

Nominations Committee

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