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Aaron van Neste

  • Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, history of science, Harvard University, 2023
  • MS, Earth systems, Stanford University, 2015
  • BA, history, Stanford University, 2013

Biography

Aaron van Neste is an assistant professor of environmental studies, researching and teaching in the fields of environmental history, history of science, environmental humanities and sustainability. Their current book project narrates the fishy origins of fisheries science and critically examines the role of data, lack of data, and theoretical assumptions about marine ecology in the making of natural resource management tools.

Fall 2026

Global Environmental History EVSS 206

Environmental History of Oceans and Great Lakes EVSS 326

Spring 2027

Environment and Society EVSS 101

Trust the Science? Knowledge and Controversy in Environmental Science and Policy EVSS 306

van Neste, Aaron. (2023) Walmarts Outsized Catch. CivilEats.
*James Beard Journalism Award Nominee 2024, Investigative Reporting

van Neste, Aaron (2024) Walmarts Ocean: Certifications, Catch Shares, and the Ripple Effects of Corporate Governance on Marine Environments in Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of Americas Biggest Retail Stores. Eds. Bartow Elmore, Rachel Gross and Sherri Sheu. Colorado University Press.

van Neste, Aaron (2022) Alien Oceans as Climate Salvation: Finding Hope in Kinship with the Deep Blue Unknown in Nonhuman Animals, Climate Crisis and the Role of Literature. Eds. Sune Borkfelt and Mathias Stephan. Palmgrave Macmillan.

van Neste, Aaron (2018) "Practising taxonomy: Joel Asaph Allen and species-making." Archives of natural history 45, no. 2: 197-212.
*William T. Stearn Essay Prize, 2017

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