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Spring 2026

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Analyzing the Impact of Silvopasture on Soil Carbon and On-farm Economics

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon reservoir, playing a major role in regulating carbon storage and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Within soil carbon management and climate change mitigation, agriculture is an important focus as a dominant human land-use and significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Integrated crop-livestock systems...

 Social Sciences   Environmental Issues   Biological & Health Sciences

Sustainability Data Intelligence

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Despite a surge in sustainability and financial data—from greenhouse gas inventories to climate and nature-related risk metrics—the challenge remains linking sustainability initiatives to financial outcomes. Data is abundant but siloed, limiting its ability to guide decision-making and creating missed opportunities for research, entrepreneurship, and capital deployment...

 Social Sciences   Environmental Issues   Biological & Health Sciences

Bridging Scientific and Traditional Knowledge for Rainforest Conservation and Restoration

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Faced with ever-increasing anthropogenic pressures, including land use change and climate change, today’s biodiversity is in crisis. Anthropogenically induced species extinction rates have become high enough to prompt researchers to dub this phenomenon the “Sixth Great Extinction”. Meanwhile, emerging voluntary biodiversity markets, in parallel to voluntary carbon markets, hold...

 Social Sciences   Environmental Issues   Biological & Health Sciences

Mapping Digital Ecologies: Ethnographic and Geospatial Analysis of Digital Infrastructure, Mining, and Environmental Justice

Matthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

PROJECT OVERVIEW Digital infrastructures—such as cryptocurrency mining, AI data centers, and renewed metal mining—are reshaping landscapes, ecosystems, and communities worldwide. This project is part of the Digital Ecologies Research Group, an interdisciplinary initiative examining the socio-environmental health impacts of digital transformations across El Salvador, the Pacific Northwest...

 Social Sciences   Environmental Issues   Biological & Health Sciences

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