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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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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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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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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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Apply today to join our team as an Innovation Grants Specialist!
Join our small and mighty team that is pushing boundaries to catalyze new environmental research for people and planet.
We are seeking a temporary part-time Innovation Grants Specialist to support our efforts in administering the EarthLab Innovation Grants Program. Our new team member will lead the release of the Innovation Grants Program Request for Proposals and the grant application, review and selection processes for our 3rd Cohort cycle.
Population health grants boost wildfire and climate research
In addition the the EarthLab-Population Health grant awarded to "Characterizing risk communication around smoke exposure in rural and tribal communities in the Okanogan River airshed emphasis area," EarthLab celebrates member organization directors Jeremy Hess (Climate Health and the Global Environment) and Jason Vogel (Climate Impacts Group) for their newly funded project, "A collaboratory to support equitable and just climate action"
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Green ways to keep food trucks clean
To bring attention to effective alternatives, experts from the University of Washington, a state agency and a nonprofit formed a team to identify and promote safer cleaning methods, starting with food trucks. Read more about the EarthLab-funded project, Clean SHiFT (Safety & Health in Food Trucks).
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EarthLab and Population Health co-fund pilot grant to improve communication around smoke exposure in rural and Tribal communities
EarthLab and the Population Health Initiative have announced a new pilot research grant award to study how Tribal and non-Tribal communities in the Okanogan River Airshed Emphasis Area (ORAEA) receive and communicate information about smoke exposure.
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Project to Create Anti-Racism Education Wins Mellon Grant
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, faculty advisor for EarthLab member organization Future Rivers and assistant professor in the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, is part of a team of academics that was recently awarded $5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).
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Apply Now: UW Population Health + EarthLab Team Up for Next Round of Pilot Research Grants
For the third year in a row, EarthLab has partnered with the UW Population Health Initiative to offer a pilot research grant of up to $50,000.
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