With a theme of Environment, Wellness, and Community, the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences’ (AESS) 2017 conference will explore how scholars of environmental studies and sciences can engage and be engaged by communities whose wellbeing is impacted by environmental conditions. The conference will address such issues as problem-solving through multi-disciplinary data and analysis, multiple perspectives, team building and collaborations, and future-oriented teaching across disciplines. In addition, the theme and location of the conference offer a chance to consider multi-scale policy making at local, city, state, regional, national and international levels.