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Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, will present “Where there is Fire, there is Smoke: Effects on Air Pollution and Mental Health in Canada” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Currie is the final speaker in the fall 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. Recent events have highlighted that air pollution from fires can travel great distances. Professor Currie’s work uses variation in local air pollution stemming from distant fires to identify the i...

Rachael DeLue, professor of art and archaeology and American studies, will present “Visuality Against the Anthropocene: Landscape Vision and Things That Do Not See” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. DeLue is the third speaker in the fall 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. Defined broadly as a portion of the Earth’s surface that can be seen at one time from one place, or narrowly as an artistic representation of the natural world, landscape supposedly hinges on the presence of a h...

Mark Zondlo, professor of civil and environmental engineering, will present “Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Zondlo is the second speaker in the fall 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. Agriculture is one of the largest sectors contributing greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions to the atmosphere, but it receives relatively little attention compared to its outsized influences on climate, human health, and ...

HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Buildings from Plants: Architecture and Embodied Carbon” Paul Lewis, Professor of Architecture, will present “Buildings from Plants: Architecture and Embodied Carbon” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Lewis is the third speaker in the spring 2023 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. Buildings are responsible for a large percentage of global carbon emissions, and the carbon expended to make buildings is substantial yet under considered. Arguing that the most viab...

Elie Bou-Zeid, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associated faculty in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), will present "The Urbasphere: How Humans, Infrastructure and Nature Shape the Emerging Environment of Cities" for the final talk in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. In the past 50 years, the global population living in cities increased from 35% to 55%, and may be nearly 70% by 2050. Urban population density and its associated infrastructur...

C. Jessica E. Metcalf, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, will present "Disease in Motion and Landscapes of Health" in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Metcalf is the third speaker in the fall 2022 Faculty Seminar Series presetned by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). Metcalf, who is associated faculty in HMEI, will explain how patterns of population connectivity shape the spread of infectious disease and define the landsc...

John Higgins, associate professor of geosciences and associated faculty in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), will present “Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Higgins is the first speaker in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series. Higgins will discuss his lab’s efforts to extend the record of Earth’s past climate using air bubbles up to 4 million years old trapped in ice cores they have collected from Antarctica’s ...