presentation roundup
From Glaciers to Barnacles: Highlights From the 2024 Annual Fall Symposium
For the second time, new and established faculty from the Nicholas School鈥檚 four divisions gathered to discuss their research, paving the way for new collaborations.
Shineng Hu
Adding New Depth to What We Know About the Oceans鈥 Role in Climate Change
Shineng Hu is a climate scientist specializing in using observations, theory and climate models to better understand the relationship between global ocean and atmospheric movement, especially as that relationship indicates and informs climate change.
Juliet Wong
Organismal Responses to Climate Change in the Sea
Juliet Wong, assistant professor of coastal and marine climate change, is a global-change biologist, specifically interested in how climate change affects marine ecosystems and their organisms, working to predict biological responses for improved resilience to adverse environmental events.
Nishad Jayasundara
Climate Change and Pollution: Challenges, Opportunities and Impacts on Kidney Health
Nishad Jayasundara, Juli Plant Grainger Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Health, studies how chemical and physical stressors affect our health.
Lee Ferguson
The Next Frontier in Forever Chemicals: Environmental Implications of Clean Energy
As the world endeavors to extricate itself from a carbon economy in favor of clean energy, Lee Ferguson is working to shed light on the potential environmental risks posed by bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides, a primary electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries.
Lisa Campbell
Birth of a Notion: How 鈥30 by 30鈥 Went from a Rogue Idea to a Ratified Goal in Marine Conservation
It鈥檚 the idea that to safeguard marine biodiversity and limit environmental damage caused by future sea-floor mining and other industrial-scale human activities, we need to place at least 30% of the world鈥檚 oceans within marine protected areas (MPAs) by 2030.
Tim Lucas
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