On June 16, 2022 I will present research on the politics of large-scale solar siting in New England at a workshop hosted by Harvard University’s Climate Pipeline Project. The Project supports early career scholars interested in the politics of climate change through mentorship, networking, and research events. The 2022 program can be found here. Participant…
The Biden-Harris administration has been on a tear recently passing multiple important rules tightening vehicle emissions standards, regulating PFAS in drinking water, increasing royalties for drilling on public lands, and launching a new conservation website. Another big announcement was made Thursday, April 18th, 2024 and made national news headlines when the BLM finalized a new…
The siting of new large-scale solar (and other types of renewable energy) facilities raise a host of issues and questions for communities and environmental organizations. For instance, how do environmental groups reconcile their mission-specific purposes with the potential impact of new facilitates? When and where do organizations decide to get involved? What is the relationship…
This is a short post sharing a couple of tricks for using the learning management system (LMS) plugin called Perusall. This semester I am teaching remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to find ways to make class more social and provide students with the opportunity to learn from each other and be incentivized…
If you are conducting research involving interviews conducted over the phone, you may be presented with a challenge: how do you capture the call, transcribe the call, and archive it? Interview Software Comparison: In this post I cover three interview software options and explain why I think Otter.ai is the best option for most research…
Reviewing manuscripts for publication is a unique and rewarding activity. Reviewers get to stay on top of new research and feel good about giving back to the field. It also takes a lot of time and energy. The following discussion is intended to guide reviewers from start to finish in completing manuscript reviews. Each reviewer…
In this post, I discuss using Google Forms to organize a literature review with co-authors. Google Forms is designed to be used as survey software, but I have found it works for article reviews as well. Google Forms gathers responses to form fields and sends that data to a Google Sheet. It’s not complicated, but…
This post is about my search for a qualitative data analysis (QDA) software solution for writing literature reviews. I review ATLAS.ti 8 and NVivo for Mac. One of the challenges of writing a dissertation is compiling, organizing, and synthesizing sources. Reference managers such as Mendeley and EndNote are great for inserting bibliographic information into text documents…
I’ve been watching the series “The Fabric of the Universe” from Nova on PBS — for once they don’t dumb down the material. Get ready to have your mind blown!