Dann Sklarew at GMU

Mason Professor Dann Sklarew's website contains link to his dissertation and information on his research areas, teaching philosophy, syllabi, projects, affiliations, LinkedIn profile, and contact information:

Profile: About.me | Academia | LinkedIn

Spring and Fall Office Hours:

Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30am-12:30pm in David King Hall room 3001. (advising office) or room 3019,at Fairfax campus.

Summer Office Hours & other times:

By email-arranged appointment via phone, Google chat, Skype or WebEx.

Recent research interests and representative publications can be viewed at: http://gmu.academia.edu/DannSklarew.

Examples of Mason dissertations and theses with Dr. Sklarew as committee chair or member are also available on-line.

Graduate applicants in search of an advisor? Please read this note.

Recent Past and Upcoming Syllabi

See patriotweb.gmu.edu for course schedules and locations:

EVPP 322	Business and Sustainability	Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
EVPP 336	Human Dimensions of the Environment	Summer 2013: Part 1 & Part 2
BIOL/EVPP 350 (lecture+lab)	Freshwater Ecosystems	Fall 2009: Part 1 & Part 2, Fall 2010: Part 1 & Part 2
EVPP 480	Sustainability in Action	Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019
EVPP 490 (charrette)	Reducing Our Carbon Footprints	Spring 2009
BIOL/EVPP 607 (face-to-face, distance ed, and hybrid sections)	Fundamentals of Ecology	Fall 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, S u mmer 2010
EVPP 505 (seminar)	Sustainability Science	Spring 2016
EVPP 626	Environment and Development in South and East Asia	Spring 2009
EVPP 677	Applied Ecology and Ecosystem Management	Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
EVPP 692/991 (charrette)	Climate Action Plans and Energy Strategies	Spring 2009
EVPP 692/991 (seminar)	In Search of Symbiosis: Ecological Facilitation in the Potomac River Valley	Spring 2010
EVPP 692/991 (seminar)	Education for Ecological Adaptation and Stewardship	Fall 2011
EVPP 692/991 (seminar)	Managing Our Planet	Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016
EVPP 741 (practicum)	Social Innovation Practicum for Sustainability	Fall 2015

EVPP 396 (individualized)	Directed Topic in Environmental Science and Policy Topics: ecological stewardship and sustainability; entrepreneurship for environmental sustainability; composting for campus sustainability, microplastics in tidal Potomac; environmental education and tick-borne disease	Springs of 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
EVPP 693 (individualized)	Directed Studies in Environmental Science and Public Policy Selected topics: enterprise sustainability; sustainable development and conservation; marine fisheries depletion; uranium mining impacts; Mason commuting options; cetacean conservation; greenhouse gas reduction strategies; sustainable business plan; environmental justice; riparian buffers; environmental education; nonpoint source pollution mitigation; deforestation in Central Africa; sustainable urban development; permaculture; microplastics in the Chesapeake Bay	Spring, Summer, Fall 2009; Spring, Summer, Fall 2010; Spring, Fall 2011; Spring, Summer 2012; Fall 2013; Spring, Fall 2014; Spring 2015; Spring 2019
EVPP 793 (individualized)	Research in Environmental Science and Policy Selected topics: pollution control cost analysis; integrating corporate and national water management for sustainability; sustainable forest management; sustainable food production; land-use change impact on Shenandoah water quality	Spring, Summer 2014; Fall 2016
EVPP 894 (individualized)	Supervised Internship Topic: Integrating sustainability tracking and environmental health systems (EHS)	Spring 2015
INTS 318	Exploring Virginia's Watersheds (proposed)	TBD (Summer 2020?)

Representative Projects

Spatially Connecting Kids to the Bay, a NOAA-supported Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) project for 21,000 students in Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools (2010-2014)
A Community Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Fairfax County, Virginia, an ARRA/DOE-supported project covering 5 years of local government, commercial, industrial and residential energy use and emissions since 2006 (2010-2012).
Enterprise Sustainability Integration, guiding graduate research assistants characterizing and informing sustainability improvement opportunities at a leading American telecommunications company (2010-present).
From the Mountains to the Estuary, from the Schoolyards to the Bay, a NOAA-supported Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) project for 18,700 students in Virginia's Prince William County Public Schools (2009-2013)
Learning Ecology Ecologically, a pilot combining distance education and constructivist pedagogy to advance ecological learning among graduate-level adult learners (2009)
International Waters: Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN), sequence of two projects sponsored by the Global Environment Facility, United Nations and World Bank (2000-2008)

Select projects and other experience are further detailed at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drdann.

Affiliations and Memberships

Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center, Mason - Faculty Fellow
Mason Sustainability Studies Academic Council - 2015)

"Managing the Planet's Freshwater a joint presentation for the Managing Our Planet series
at the Woodrow Wilson Center
February 23, 2011

BONUS - Documentary video, "Turning the Tide: Sustaining Earth's Large Marine Ecosystems," which Sklarew helped to produce and for which he co-wrote the script:

NOTE TO GRADUATE APPLICANTS:

In order to provide sufficient guidance to those who have already joined my lab, I am unable to accept new MS or PhD advisees until Fall 2020. If you are aiming to matriculate sooner than Fall 2020, please do not contact me about being your advisor.

Those who seek to enter my lab thereafter should have research interests well aligned with mine, a grade point average equivalent to at least 3.6 in their last completed academic degree, GRE scores above population median and, for non-native English speakers, at least one of the following ESL test scores: 600 on paper TOEFL, 250 on computer-based TOEFL, 100 on Internet-based TOEFL, or 7.0 on IELTS. Please email me your CV and research interests by December 31, 2019 if you expect to meet these criteria and would like to join my lab. Thank you very much for your interest!