White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, associate in Carbon Free Electricity at the Rocky Mountain Institute, Equal Justice Works Fellow with the Conservation Law Foundation, chief officer of international affairs in New Energy and Industrial Technology Development in Japan, landscape GIS analyst at the Defenders of Wildlife in Washington D.C., and senior analyst and corporate development with Avangrid utilities, among others. and the globe, taking on a wide array of impactful roles, including senior analyst in renewable energy finance with Cypress Creek Renewables, Heyman Fellow in the U.S. The 2023 graduating class will be fanning out across the U.S. The doctoral students explored a broad array of novel research questions, including ways for harmonious coexistence between people and snow leopards and other carnivores in Tibet bio-cultural landscapes of Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nations in Clayoquot Sound in British Columbia dissolved organic matter in temperate rivers logging impacts on tropical forest ecology in the Congo Basin social and cultural dimensions of environmental change in the rural North American West remote sensing and the economics of sustainable development functional effects of tree and shrub mycorrhizal associations on soil organic matter dynamics in forests and diversity of herbaceous plants along tropical rainfall gradients in India. This year’s class included 87 Master of Environmental Management graduates 36 Master of Environmental Science nine Master of Forestry two Master of Forest Science 28 joint degree graduates, and eight doctoral recipients. Photo GalleryĬlass of 2023 Commencement week highlights The Class of 2023 celebrated their commencement Monday, first with a Yale-wide ceremony at the historic Old Campus with Yale College and a dozen graduate and professional schools, and then an afternoon ceremony at Kroon Courtyard during which they received their degrees from YSE faculty, participated in a pinning ceremony, and attended a luncheon. “My point is not that we should be pessimistic about making a difference (as soon as possible) to heal the planet, ecosystems, society, and institutions - quite the opposite,” Burke said “Rather, we need to understand and embrace the idea that worthwhile change of complex systems requires commitment, persistence, and a sense of urgency, and at the same time, a deep and wise application of strategy and patience. But addressing these challenges will take determination and sensitivity. The planet is at a threshold for climate change, biodiversity loss, and for environmental injustices, she noted. Still, we must stick with it, with both a sense of purpose and possibility, and one of patience, if we are to address this urgent and existential challenge,” Burke said. On top of planetary inertia, there’s a slow rate of societal understanding, willingness to change, then effecting change through policy and technological developments. Think of it, 150 years of greenhouse gas emissions and the planet has now begun to discernably change, like a large heavy ball just starting to roll downhill, more and more rapidly, and it is very difficult to change that trajectory, even with rapid action. But the planet changes slowly, with tremendous inertia, and complex feedback loops related to physics, chemistry, and biology of CO 2 and temperature as they interact with the atmosphere, ocean, and ecosystem - feedback loops that are hard to reverse. “We want to solve climate change - urgently. Full coverage of Commencement 2023, including photo gallery, graduate spotlights, and the livestream video.
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