This episode features a wonderful, wide ranging conversation about nature, urban ecology, community science and much more with Kingston local Elias Deuker, Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies; Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities.
Professor Eli Dueker joined Bard in 2014 as the Assistant Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies. With a B.A. from Rhodes College, an MA, MPhil,and PhD, from Columbia University, as well as postdoctoral research at many other institutions. Additionally, he studied at Columbia University’s Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology postbaccalaureate program. His work has been published in Environmental Science and Technology, Biogeosciences, and Science of the Total Environment.
Before entering academia, he worked for 14 years in the nonprofit world, including 10 years addressing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in institutional structures, serving as the former director of Project Underground, an international environmental and human rights organization, and as a board member of Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a transgender law collective in NYC. He is the founder and a Team member of the Saw Kill Watershed Community, which protects the Saw Kill watershed and its ecological, recreational, and historic resources through hands-on science, education, and advocacy. His teaching interests include water quality, air quality, oceanography, urban ecology, environmental microbiology, and the role of science in addressing environmental justice issues.
