Colin Gipson-Tansil
Colin Gipson-Tansil joined ELI in January of 2014 by way of the Great Lakes State. Colin serves as ELI’s Senior Digital Media Producer where he oversees digital media needs at seminars, webinars, and events, manages social media sites, assists with support of ELI’s various websites, and produces videos as well as podcasts. Colin earned his M.A. in Producing for Film, TV and Video from American University. Prior to his Master's degree, received his B.A. in Media Arts and Technology with a concentration in Film, Radio and TV from Michigan State University.
Appears in 60 Episodes
Sedimentary, My Dear Watson: How Coastal Resilience is Affected by Sediment Placement Regulation
Did you know that sediment could be a critical resource for coastal resilience? In this episode of the People Places Planet Podcast, host Georgia Ray speaks with Derek...
Discussions with ELI’s Spring Interns: The Nagoya Protocol and India’s Green Hydrogen Investments
At the Environmental Law Institute, interns have the opportunity to develop independent research projects based off their interests. In this episode of the People Plac...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Scott Fisher, Local Stewardship Award Winner
Language changes how we perceive the world around us, and Scott Fisher is no stranger to that concept. Conversant in the Hawaiin language, Scott’s work centers communi...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Bingqing Liu, Scientific Research Award Winner
From remote sensing to carbon sequestration, Bingqing Liu has the research to back it up. Dr. Liu’s work at The Water Institute is taking a deep look at how coastal re...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Rebecca Swadek, Wetlands Program Development Award Winner
New York City might not be the concrete jungle you think it is. Rebecca Swadek has secured over $22 million in city and grant funding to implement wetlands projects ac...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Matthew Hough, Promoting Awareness Award Winner
Promoting awareness is never easy–especially when you're talking to an uninformed and sometimes resistant public. Despite the difficulty, Matt Hough has been instrumen...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Charlotte Michaluk, Youth Leadership Award Winner
Charlotte Michaluk has been a successful, data-driven advocate for wetland conservation and a continuous force in educating the community, notably through her wetland ...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Adam Davis, Business Leadership Award Winner
Philanthropic and government resources alone can’t afford to restore all our wetlands. Over the past two decades, Adam Davis’ thought leadership has increased private ...
Groundtruth: Cultural Burns as Tools for Wildfire Prevention and Indigenous Healing
Indigenous people used prescribed burns in forests for thousands of years to manage land, reduce wildfire risk, and support cultural practices. Noa Ervin and Claire Mc...
The Enforcement Angle: Driving California Toward Carbon-Neutrality with Dr. Steven Cliff
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is playing a major role in setting air quality standards across the country and world. Led by Dr. Steven Cliff, the agency wo...
Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Resilience with Lawyers and Authors Susan Crawford and Robert Verchick
In this podcast episode, Jeffrey Peterson interviews Susan Crawford and Robert Verchick, two noted lawyers who have new books on climate adaptation and coastal resilie...
Drinking Water in LA County
Drinking water in the United States is among the world’s cleanest and most heavily regulated, yet entire grocery store aisles are dedicated to bottled water. Why is th...
The Youth Review: Government-to-Government Consultation with Tribal Nations During Constant Environmental Change
As sovereign nations, a unique relationship exists between Tribal Nations and the U.S. federal government, which is grounded in the U.S. Constitution. An integral comp...
The Enforcement Angle: Corporate Compliance Monitors
Increasingly, independent third parties—better known as “corporate compliance monitors”--are appointed to oversee a company’s compliance following the settlement of a ...
Global Perspectives on International Law Education and Practice with Visiting Attorney Tomkeen Mobegi
Global sustainable development requires attention to environmental, developmental, and social priorities. ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with ELI Visiting Attorney Tomkeen M...
Women & Water
International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 to bring attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence an...
The Enforcement Angle: DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment & Natural Resources Division is tasked with enforcing the United States’ civil and criminal environmental laws. In this ep...
Red, White & Blue = Green? Parallels Behind U.S. and French Environmental Law
Many view the early 1970s as the dawn of environmental law here in the United States. President Nixon signed NEPA into law on January 1, 1970. By December of that same...
The Enforcement Angle: The New Mexico Environment Department
With its deeply forested mountains, unique rock formations, vast plains, and moonlike deserts, New Mexico—the fifth largest state of the nation—boasts a unique landsca...
National Wetlands Award Feature: Wetlands Watch
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with Ross Weaver, the Program Assistant Director for Wetlands Watch, in this first in a series of episodes highlighting the incredible work of...
ELI 2022 Year in Review
John Pendergrass, ELI’s Vice President of Programs and Publications, and Sandy Thiam, Associate Vice President of Research & Policy, share highlights from ELI’s resear...
Ocean Circulation, Science Communication, and Climate Policy — A Conversation with John M. Doherty
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with ELI Science Fellow John Doherty about his paleoclimatology research, current climate change policy discussions, and barriers associated w...
The Youth Review: Electric Vehicles and Just Energy Transitions
As more EVs reach the roads, governments will need to address a host of new environmental and social challenges. In this episode, we reflect on the role EV production ...
Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Compliance
ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with Jed Anderson, the founder of EnviroAI, to discuss the role of AI in environmental compliance. Jed shares how we can leverage the sophisti...
Reimagining the Role of Biogas for Environmental Justice
How can we leverage renewable energy standards to better aid vulnerable communities so that energy systems advance rather than thwart environmental justice? ELI’s Geor...
The Enforcement Angle: INTERPOL’s Pollution Crime Working Group
Justin Savage, a Partner and the Global Co-Leader of the Environmental practice at Sidley Austin LLP, and Nicole Noelliste, a Managing Associate at Sidley Austin LLP, ...
Conversation with Benjamin F. Wilson: 2022 Environmental Achievement Award Winner
ELI’s Georgia Ray sits down with the recipient of this year’s Environmental Achievement Award: Benjamin F. Wilson, an environmental lawyer and civil rights advocate wh...
State Protection of Nonfederal Waters
What happens when federal regulatory changes to the CWA framework result in regulatory “gaps” for the states to resolve? Jim McElfish, a Senior Attorney and Director o...
Environmental Impacts of a Digital Sharing Economy
“Digital sharing services” often promise broad society benefits, including a more environmentally friendly economy. But are these sharing innovations really changing o...
Water Justice and the Constituent Empowerment Model
In “Turning Participation into Power: A Water Justice Case Study,” Prof. Jaime Lee of the University of Baltimore School of Law offers a revamped model of participator...