Environmental Science and Sustainability

Daniel Sherman?is the Luce-Funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making at the University of Puget Sound.? He received B.A. degrees from Canisius College ('95, Political Science) and Victoria University of Wellington ('96, Maori Studies), M.A. degrees from Colorado State University ('99, Political Science) and Cornell University ('02, Government), and a Ph.D. from Cornell University ('04, Government). He sits on the same hall as our author Patrick O'Neil.? Sherman has written?Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere: ?Politics, Social Movements and the Disposal of Low-level Radioactive Waste?published by the environmental publisher RFF.? He has won the Tom Davis Teaching Excellence Award:?University of Puget Sound, and won the Best Conference Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Society for Values in Higher Education for?"Sustainability as a Way of Thinking: Tools for Understanding Sustainability?as Critical Inquiry and Achieving Integration Across the Higher Education?Curriculum."?Sherman also worked for two years in the Ecology group at the Los Alamos Natural Laboratory. David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He studies the evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies. He received his B.S. in geology at Stanford University (1984) and his Ph.D. in geomorphology from UC Berkeley (1991). Current research includes field projects in the Philippines, eastern Tibet, and the Pacific Northwest of North America. In 2008 Montgomery received a MacArthur Fellowship. His books, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, King of Fish, and The Rocks Don't Lie have all won the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction. Montgomery's Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life, was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson award for Literary Science Writing. His latest work with W. W. Norton, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim our Health, published in 2022.