Success Stories in Environmental Sciences

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Environmental Science and Environmental Studies majors graduate with a wide variety of opportunities before them.

Graduates who enter the professional arena have taken jobs in waste management, ecological restoration, nature conservancy, policy, planning, law, and for organizations that include environmental NGOs, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Agriculture, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and The Bureau of Land Management.


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Jim Galloway '66

James Galloway '66
Professor of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia

In 1966, Jim Galloway left Whittier College with a dual degree in biology and chemistry. In the ensuing years, he has been called both a “pioneer and an exceptional leader” on global biogeochemical issues focusing on documenting and understanding the massive changes that are occurring in the global nitrogen cycle both through his own research as well as fostering a major international effort.

Most recently, Galloway and his colleagues at the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and the Netherlands have created a web-based calculator that measures an individual’s impact on the nitrogen cycle according to factors such as diet and transportation choices.

The calculator, launched in February 2011, is a project of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI), a global network of scientists who share research and data on the nitrogen dilemma. Galloway was the founding chair of INI.

In 2008, Galloway was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In 2011, he was selected as the Distinguished Guest Lecturer to the Environmental Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London. He has served as a Trustee for the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. St. Georges, Bermuda since 1983 and as President of the Trustees from 1988-1995. He was appointed to the executive committee of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Sciences Advisory Board (2003-2006).

Galloway has published over 200 articles, book chapters, reviews and reports with over a half dozen of them in Science and Nature magazines. He has over 53 first authored peer-reviewed publications and 28 book chapters. In 2006, he was noted by the Institute of Scientific Information as author of the third most cited paper in the field of ecology published within a two year period.

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