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A Laboratory in the Woods The slender Gallinas River tiful and varied environments that threads its way past the UWC‑USA
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vides water to local farmers Talal Soghaier Orit Stein-Reisner Nina Mary Stupples Jill (Baty) Taura Maria Jose Tort Canto Emma Tucker Sven van den Hazel György Vereb Susanna Vervoordeldonk Carolina Waters Brendan Wild Stephen Wilson
Class of 1986 $22,615 raised; 60% participation Anonymous Khamis Abu-Hasaballah Audrey (Kollitz) Allen Pekka Arikoski Orit Ashkenazi Anne Bax Chris Bickley * Gita Bodner Dana M. Brandon Morgan Dewees Gavin Dock Margaret I. Drent * Alioune Fall Francisco H. G. Ferreira * Janet M. (Roberts) Florez Ivor Frischknecht Gayatri Gopinath Aashild (Erikkson) Hettervik Tsvetelina Lazarova Colleen Lewis von Eckartsberg Daniel (Hamburger) Lidar Rebecca Lloyd * Timothy Long * Michal Lord-Blegen Marcelo Marchesin * John McKiernan Sophie Moochhala Pilar Murillo Emma Manda Mwanza
Dejan Nenov Anju Nohria Teresa Ordorika Shelley Pasco-Verdi Nuria Pastor-Soler Swati Patankar Alastair Paulin HRH Prince Pavlos Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup Karen Petroski Maria C. Pineda Zorilla Abigail (Crampton) Pribbenow Nabina Rajbhandari Sergio Ripamonti Mario Roman Gian Paolo Ruggiero Manuel Salazar Diez Canseco Peter Richard Schuurman Thomas Schwingeler Fiona Siu Fernando Skerl Anthony Spearman-Leach Amy Sullivan Yoshiko Tanabe Gunhan Tatman Guillermo Trejo Nanette van der Laan Jacqueline Vargas Arellanes Chanin Warakulnukroh Gina Webster Martin Weiss Michael West Melanie Weston * Birgitte Wøhlk
Class of 1987 $15,806 raised; 23% participation Anonymous * Michael B. Aaron * Ivan Alves Anjali Arondekar Carla (Castellanos) Bass * Yvette V. Baxter-Drayton * Paulo J. Bilezikjian
Ana B. Campos Mora Åke Densert * April (Ethier-O’Neill) Dewees Manolo Espinosa David James Kuo-Chang Kung Maria I. Leon Gomez Amit Mital David Neidel * Karen O’Leary Sebastien Ramseyer Vera Siregar Karen Ann Taylor de Caballero * Dana Thordarson Isabelle Trop
Class of 1988 $18,744 raised; 21% participation Anonymous Gregor Andrade Shona L. Armstrong * Barbara (Barbie) Burger Mauricio de Arruda Renata Dwan Benjamin D. Fishman Norton Francis Lullit Getachew Lisa Hartrich * Kirsten Healey Charmaine Lee * Chor Jye Lee Eileen McKiernan González Michael Polenz Ana Spadijer Carl St. Remy * Subitha Subramaniam Matthew Svoboda * Mudit Tyagi * Zachary Weisfeld Marina Wes Agnieszka Ziemba-Ahman
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Class of 1989 $8,177 raised; 17% participation
and residents. It also serves as the perfect laboratory for
Odd-Even Bustnes Michael Buckley Cesar Castillo Yutthichai Chanikornpradit Raj K. Gupta Sara B. Koplik * Kamenna (Rindova) Lee * Diego Lopez James McNeil Tseliso Mosiuoa Chiara Osbat Annukka Piironen * Vinay H. Srihari Michael Stern * Naomi Swinton (E) Victor Williams Erin (Kennedy) Woods *
science classes.
Class of 1990 $13,030 raised; 31% participation
Environmental Systems and Soci‑ eties, better known as E-Systems around campus, is one of five International Baccalaureate (IB) sciences offered at UWC‑USA. Taking advantage of the beau‑
Sanna Ahvenharju Zulfiqar Ali * Meher Antia Paula Asbun * Michael Brown * Angeline Chupa * David S. Collison * Henry Everts Sandra Gisella Gastañaduy-Collison * Julian Ho Hiroko (Morita) James Catherine Jheon * Sarah (Stamp) Kenningham Adam Kirk * Maggi Leung Lance Meister * Hans O. Melberg Sophie Joy Mosko Anasol Munoz Peter Musaeus *
On warm days, students in wad‑ ers stand in the middle of the river capturing samples to test water quality and the effects of hot springs drainage. When a bird in the distance sings a minor descending key, Environmental Systems and Societies instructor Ben Gillock asks students to lis‑ ten. “Do you hear that?” he says. “It’s a Canyon Wren.”
of northern New Mexico, Ben’s classes travel around the state to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-life observa‑ tions and data collection. Among other projects, E-Systems students have analyzed soil mois‑ ture at the Montezuma Hot Springs, observed reserve design and management at the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge, and cal‑ culated the impact of storm run‑ off and treated wastewater on the water quality of the Gallinas Riv‑ er. In an effort to raise awareness about conscientious stewardship of the local land, E-Systems stu‑ dents also helped organize the first annual Watershed Olympics on campus—a highly successful educational event.
Typical of other IB courses, the holistic Environmental Systems syllabus teaches students to con‑ nect their personal relationships with the environment to the sig‑ nificance of the choices they make in their own lives. “Environmental Systems has deepened my relationship to the natural wonder of New Mexico during out-of-doors class time while providing me with a base of knowledge useful in analyzing the various approaches to our cli‑ mate problem,” says Sam Kessler ’13, USA-N.Y. —by Emily Withnall MC ’01
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