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- Jennifer Veilleux’s earliest memories include scaling boulders and eating autumn leaves. She spent her childhood hanging out of trees, riding her bike, and exploring patches of woods with her dog in Connecticut. Camping trips in New England changed to backpacking trips through Australia, Central America, Europe, and clear across the North American continent. She has explored ancient ruins, waded through swamps, scaled rock walls, hiked through waste-deep snow, perched on mountaintops, shimmied into caves, swam in oceans, lakes, and seas, and climbed more trees.
Eventually the natural sciences won out at university and Jen has since been involved in environmental resource issues specific to water and land-use. She designed and implemented two independent research projects: Land-Use Changes in San Salvador, Bahamas in 2003 and International Watershed Management and Policy in the Lake Ohrid Watershed area of the Balkans in 2003 and 2004; both of which introduced her to amazing places and incredible people.
Jen has lived in Australia, Hungary, and Macedonia. This international experience has shaped her approach to, and influenced her understanding of, present global environmental questions and problems.
Jennifer acted as an assistant editor for the political science journal International Politics, has contributed to E/The Environmental Magazine as an editorial intern, and has written stories for Naugatuck Valley Community College’s Paper The Tamarak.
Jennifer holds an A.A. in Liberal Arts, B.S. in Environmental Science, M.S. in Environmental Science, was a National Security Education Program Boren Fellow in 2003 and 2004, and a Visiting Scholar at Central European University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary in 2003 and 2004.
She currently lives and works in Washington, DC as an Associate Editor of a University Press.
Posts by Jen V.:
Dumping once again
This morning I read this article about toxic sludge being dumped by a tanker in the ocean and washing up on the shores of the Ivory Coast. The kid in the picture above has sores on his body from exposure to this stuff. People have gotten ill from exposure and inhalation of the pollutant and some [...]
Sakhalin Island
Sometimes environmental victories come in unlikely packages. The Russian government announced this week that it is putting the nix on Shell Oil Company’s plans to pursue the “Sakhalin II” project, a project to extract, exploit, and transport fossil fuels through both on and offshore pipelines in a remote part of Russia, Sakhalin Island. Sakhalin [...]
Backyard Miracles
The butterflies are migrating! I have noticed the delicate orange wonders flit joyfully through my neighborhood from one purple butterfly bush to the next for about 2 weeks now. They float along the sidewalks, the Potomac, and through our backyards. Today I counted about 13 of them float by my office window. The butterfly migration marks the end of [...]
Fishtale
This week in DC, concern over a scientific study that found “intersex fish” in the Potomac resonated only briefly around my office and circle of friends. I have tried impress my concern upon them that we are, in fact, drinking Potomac River water here in DC (and in some of the surrounding suburbs like Arlington). [...]
Global Warming Debate in Supreme Court
When I first read that the Supreme Court is debating global warming and whether the U.S. Government should have more stringent emissions regulations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from automobiles, my heart skipped a beat. The Supreme Court is going to decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should treat CO2 emissions as a pollution [...]
Three Gorges Dam in Action
Within the last 24 hours, the final temporary retaining wall that held water intended for the Three Gorges Dam project was destroyed in order that the water may enter and discharge through the dam. Three Gorges Dam is on. This is the largest dam ever constructed in the world and is surrounded by controversy from groups [...]
A Story No Less Important
All this talk about global warming and the current backlash from “anti-environmentalists” reminds me of something I experienced only months ago.
Photo of Dr. Jim Hanson courtesy of the New York Times
I attended conference at the New School in January 2006 entitled “Politics & Science” and the place was buzzing because Jim Hanson was there to [...]
Women in Science Site
This month the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation in partnership with L’Oreal created and launched a website that serves as a platform for discussion about women in science. This website is a new piece of the ongoing Women in Science program sponsored by UNESCO and the French cosmetics company. The existing [...]
Solar technology is lookin’ good…
Many people think solar panels are ugly and that they are an eyesore on the roof of otherwise attractive homes. Some more rigid housing communities have gone so far as to ban them because of this bias. But most of us are familiar with the story about the ugly duckling.
Watch out because solar technology is [...]
State of the Union Address States Something Incredible
Although our President has tried to hold back the tide of change toward cleaner healthier energy, some things he said in his last State of the Union Address suggests that he may be changing his tune, at least for now. The oil money man said that “America is addicted to oil”, and implied that this [...]
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