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Recognizing community partners for their flexibility and adaptation in the face of COVID
This year our community partners had to adapt as much as faculty to changed circumstances. They had to go remote with us, offering remote feedback, engagement and activities. They had to consider whether an internship or project could even be done remotely, redesign entire projects and, in some cases, manage COVID protocols and precautions to allow students to participate directly. We conceived of this COVID-era version of our community partner award while debriefing the semester with Mary Val Palumbo in Nursing. Mary Val was raving about a particular community partner, who had just really taken it on herself to help students complete their service-learning activities. Thanks to the following partner and the professor s story of her work we opened the nominations and are privileged to recognize these 10 partners for continuing to work with us during the pandemic.
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Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have published the most extensive analysis to date on groundwater infrastructure across the globe. Their research calls attention to the high number of wells at risk for running dry, including along the Central Coast.
Around the world, billions of people rely on wells for drinking water and crop irrigation, but that reliance is being threatened by changes in groundwater levels.
“When wells run dry, people lose access to a water supply to their homes, and people lose access to a reliable source of water to produce crops that support their livelihoods,” said Debra Perrone, assistant professor in UCSB s Environmental Studies Program.
Rebecca Harhai | April 30, 2021
Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs is now enrolling for a new fully online Master of Sustainability, Security and Resilience program. The program, designed to prepare professionals for unprecedented, climate-based disruptions, will be part of the Environmental Studies Program portfolio.
“Climate change and its impacts are major security threats, affecting supply chains, clean water, infrastructure, financial systems and communities,” Dr. Natalie Kruse, professor and director of the Environmental Studies Program, said. “This program aims to prepare people to understand both the stresses on our systems and the different strategies for overcoming challenges and making the systems more resilient.”
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Professor digs into stories about diversity and equity outdoors
UO professor Sarah Wald hasn’t gone down the TikTok rabbit hole, but she’s explored just about every other storytelling medium to examine issues of equity and diversity in outdoor recreation and public land use.
Wald, who is affiliated with both the Environmental Studies Program and Department of English, is working on a new research project that will explore how different narratives address inequities and diversity in public land use and outdoor recreation. She’s looking at everything from documentaries about the first all-Black ascent of Denali to a graphic novel about bird watching and Black Lives Matter to blogs and Instagram posts about Latinx identity and nature to probe this question.