Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Amy Seidl is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont. Her appointment is within the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Her courses include Introduction to Environmental Studies; Sustainability Science; Teaching About the Environment; Landscape Restoration and Leadership; Adaptation to Climate Change; and Environmental Literature of the Anthropocene. She is a member of the University Curricular Affairs Committee and is a UVM fellow in Service-Learning and in Sustainability. Amy served as co-director of the Environmental Studies Program from 2015-2023.

Dr. Seidl is the author of two books on global warming, Early Spring: Waking to a Warming World (2009) and Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming (2011), both from Beacon Press. In 2010 Amy received a "Best of the Best" award for Early Spring from the Association of Academic and University Presses. In 2016 she was awarded the Marcia Caldwell Award for her dedication to students and in 2017 she was awarded the Lynn Bond Faculty Award for Service-Learning. In 2020, Dr. Seidl was awarded the President’s Distinguished Senior Lecturer Award for the University. Dr. Seidl received a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Vermont and a Masters degree in Entomology from Colorado State University. She lives in Huntington, Vermont.

Publications

  • 2011 Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming (Beacon Press, Boston, MA).
  • 2009 Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World. (Beacon Press, Boston, MA. Foreword by Bill McKibben).

Book Chapters

  • Seidl, A. “Resembling the Cosmic Rhythms: Evolution of Nature and Stewardship in the Age of Humans,” Minteer, B. (ed.) in After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2014)
  • Seidl, A. “The Pragmatics of Climate Change: Moving Ideas into Action,” de la Macorra, X. (ed.) in Human Migration and Climate Change, America Natural, Mexico City, Mexico. (2012)
Amy sitting on a white, sandy beach with green sea grasses

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

Research: Sustainability science, ecology, evolution, climate change, environmental communication

Education

  • PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Vermont
  • MS, Entomology, Colorado State University
  • BA, Science and Poetry, Hampshire College

CV

PDF icon Amy Seidl CV 10-2023(PDF).pdf

Contact

Email:

Amy.Seidl@uvm.edu

Phone:
  • 802-656-0907
Office Location:

Johnson House, Room 203

Office Hours:

Email Amy to schedule an appointment