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Burning Embers: Synthesis of the Health Risks of Climate Change
There is growing evidence that climate change is already causing illnesses and deaths from high ambient temperature, exposure to high levels of ozone, dengue fever, and Lyme disease. Additional climate change is projected to increase for heat-related morbidity and mortality, ozone-related mortality, dengue and Lyme disease from undetectable to severe risks as the planet continues to warm, according to new research published by the Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) at the University of Washington.
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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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CHanGE Comes to EarthLab
New collaboration between UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) and EarthLab will accelerate climate research, action and resilience.
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Bookmark These New Websites for Future Rivers, Ocean Nexus Center & Washington Ocean Acidification Center
We're thrilled to present three new websites for Future Rivers, Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center & Washington Ocean Acidification Center (WOAC).
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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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Innovative New Prizes Add to Competition Experience
EarthLab is proud to sponsor a prize at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, presented by Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The Community Impact Prize recognizes innovation in developing a product, solution, or demonstrated business model that mitigates or makes communities more resilient in the face of climate change while prioritizing equity and justice.
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Second edition released: Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic
This second edition of "Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic" includes new insights from interviews with researchers who have had to change their methods - includes discussion of ethics implications when using enumerators, and the potential for decolonizing research.
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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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Introducing the new WOAC website!
We're proud to unveil a new website for the Washington Ocean Acidification Center. Thank you to the College of the Environment web team!
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Meet the Ocean Nexus Indigenous Ocean Ecologies Fellows
Ocean Nexus is proud to welcome five undergraduate student fellows and one graduate student fellow in Indigenous Ocean Ecologies, a new program created in partnership with the UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) and Department of American Indian Studies. This year-long research fellowship is focused on the intersections of sovereignty, wellbeing, and environmental justice among Indigenous coastal communities, especially in the Pacific Northwest.
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