EarthLab News

Announcements, Climate

EarthLab Welcomes Program on Climate Change to EarthLab Affiliates

EarthLab announced today that the Program on Climate Change (PCC) has become an EarthLab Affiliate Organization. EarthLab Affiliates are University of Washington-based organizations that are similarly seeking to address critical and complex environmental issues. EarthLab and Affiliates support each other’s programs by sharing information, ideas and networks in order to catalyze new relationships and research projects.

Call for nominations for EarthLab Lunch & Learn Series: Collaborating Across Difference

Each month, we invite two or more individuals from different backgrounds, i.e. sectors/disciplines/communities/geographies, who learned lessons about how to collaborate while working together on a project. To nominate yourself or another team, please email EarthLab Communications Lead Constance McBarron at cmcbar@uw.edu. Nominations are accepted on a rolling basis and we will work with the team directly to secure the date.

EarthLab Equity and Justice Reads: Homegoing

EarthLab has selected Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi for our equity and justice book club this quarter. EarthLab staff and member organization members will meet on Friday, November 6 to discuss the themes of intersectionality, colonialism and imperialism, and slavery-- and how they relate to the environmental and conservation field.

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Media Coverage, Climate

Washington Commissioner’s Climate Summit Highlighted Area, Global Vulnerabilities

Dr. Amy Snover of the Climate Impacts Group was a key speaker at the Washington Commissioner’s Climate Summit. National insurance publication Insurance Journal covered the event.

Faisal Hossain publishes children’s books on STEM

Faisal Hossain, UW professor of civil and environmental engineering and executive committee member of Future Rivers at UW EarthLab, has published two books for young readers: “The Secret Lives of Scientists, Engineers, and Doctors,” volumes one and two, from Mascot Books.

Climate

Accelerating our global response to a worsening crisis

UW’s new Hans Rosling Center for Population Health asked five of the University’s leading voices on climate change and decarbonization to discuss how we can move forward from the pandemic in ways that deliver environmental resilience and positive health outcomes for all.

Amy Snover, director of the Climate Impacts Group and university director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, contributed to the series with the following essay.

Media Coverage, Oceans

Justice and sustainability: Geographer focusing on fair ocean governance in international project

From our economy to our culture and health, our interactions with the ocean are a part of our daily lives in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is only fitting, then, that Memorial University is one of the research universities that is part of the Ocean Nexus Center.

Grants, Media Coverage

EarthLab’s ‘Voices Unbound’ second season talks of social tensions from COVID-19

“Voices Unbound: Enviro-Amplify” is a podcast created by EarthLab and UW Tacoma, and hosted by Robin Evans-Agnew associate professor in the school’s Nursing and Healthcare Leadership Program. The podcast has now published its second season.

Grants, Media Coverage

As Wildfire Smoke Clears, King County’s Airport Communities Continue Fight for Clean Air

The EarthLab Innovation Grants is funding a study that will rely on drones to measure the effect of vegetation on ultrafine particles. Researchers hope the study will offer insight on the role of urban planning programs that use greenery to mitigate particulate air pollution.