EarthLab News
Announcing the 2021 EarthLab Innovation Grants RFP
The Innovation Grants Program will invest in teams of community partners and academic researchers and students at the University of Washington (UW) who are interested in developing solutions at the intersection of climate change and social justice. Letters of Intent are due January 27, 2022.
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UW Climate Impacts Group, partner organizations launch the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative
The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative will advance efforts to adapt to climate change in frontline communities — communities that have been excluded from spaces of power and who are disproportionately facing the impacts of climate change.
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The Spokesman Review: Washington could see more mosquitoes with hotter, longer summers
Moisture and heat are key to the mosquito life cycle. Change one of those elements, or both, and the population and our vulnerability to it will likely change, said Cory Morin, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington. Cory co-led an EarthLab Innovation Grants project that assessed Climate Driven Zoonotic Disease Risk in Washington state.
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Ocean Nexus Center Virtual Open House
We hope you can join us on September 21 from 3-5 pm PT (Sept. 22 from 8-10 am AEST), as we celebrate the first two years of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center.
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High Country News: ‘Every part of a degree of warming that we can avert will make the future better’
Amy Snover, researcher and director of the Climate Impacts Group, explains why the IPCC report matters, what it says about climate change in the Northwest, and how communities can prepare.
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Crosscut: More mosquitoes in WA could come with hotter, longer summers
Climatologists, entomologists and public health experts worry our sunny, mostly bugless summers in the PNW could soon be a thing of the past. Cory Morin and Nick Bond were quoted regarding their Innovation Grant-funded project, Assessing Climate Driven Zoonotic Disease Risk in Washington State.
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UW News: With extreme heat increasingly common, UW expert calls for urgent planning to protect health in new Lancet series
Professor Kristie Ebi with the Center for Health and the Global Environment co-leads a new series on increasingly common extreme heat waves and their impact on human health.
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How we can restore forests, increase fire resilience and protect communities
EarthLab Advisory Board member Phil Rigdon co-authored this Seattle Times op-ed with Commissioner Hilary Franz and The Nature Conservancy's Washington director Mike Stevens.
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New UW collaboratory to support equitable and just climate action
An interdisciplinary group of University of Washington researchers has teamed with Front and Centered to create an innovative Collaboratory to promote just and equitable climate action.
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Re-thinking conservation: student leaders are changing the face, practice and future of environmental stewardship
EarthLab member organization Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington (DDCSP@UW) teaches a new approach to conservation to emerging student leaders.
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