Discovery Day 2023
Discovery Day is a multidisciplinary poster show celebrating student research on environmental topics. The event provides an opportunity for students to display and discuss their research methodologies and results, exchange perspectives, and identify potential solutions to pressing environmental challenges. One…
HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Carbon Utilization and Other Needed Technologies for the Transition to Net Zero”
Emily Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics, will present “Carbon Utilization and Other Needed Technologies for…
“Thoreau’s Walden: A Religious Vision of Environmental Justice?”
Come engage with Alda Balthrop-Lewis as part of the Religion and Environmental Justice Event Series. Dr. Balthrop-Lewis will cover themes in her book Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge, 2021). A response will given…
Climate Mobilities Working Group Speaker Series: “Migration and Climate from a Demographic Perspective”
Lori Hunter, Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, is the third speaker in the Climate Mobilities Working Group – 2023 Speaker Series. The Climate Mobilities Working Group is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars from a range of institutions who examine the ethics, justice,…
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?”
Imani Jacqueline Brown, Queen Mary, University of London, will present “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?” for the last talk in the spring 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium. The cosmology of “extractivism”, which spans from colonialism…
Koopman decomposition of the SST dynamics
Antonio Navarra, University of Bologna, will present “Koopman decomposition of the SST dynamics” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, in Guyot Hall, Room 220. In the last years, ensemble methods have been widely popular in atmospheric, climate, and ocean dynamics…
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…
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “What a Mushroom Lives For”
Michael Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, will present “What a Mushroom Lives For” for the third talk in the spring 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium. This talk tells the fascinating story of one particularly prized species,…
“Oceanography Otherwise: Marine Methods in the Environmental Humanities”
Alison Glassie, lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University, will present “Oceanography Otherwise: Marine Methods in the Environmental Humanities” at noon Thursday, March 30, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 002. In The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology (1855), Matthew…
