Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar shines light on cloud seeding in era of climate change<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Emily Yeh, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, speaks to students in Science Meets Policy in the Real World, a class taught by Morgan Ruelle, assistant professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice. Yeh, a professor of geography at University of Colorado-Boulder, spoke to four undergraduate classes and graduate students on her two-day visit to Clark. Photo by Steve King, university photographer<\/em>\n<\/p>\n
As climate change alters patterns of precipitation, governments and utility companies around the world are turning to the little-studied practice of cloud seeding to generate snow and rain, according to a geographer who spoke at Clark University this week.<\/p>\n
“As I dug into this, I was surprised both by how common cloud seeding actually is, especially where I live in Colorado, and all across the American West,” said Emily Yeh, professor of geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder, in her March 19 lecture, “Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change,” in Dana Commons’ Higgins Lounge.<\/p>\n
Yeh, who was invited to Clark as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, spent two days speaking to four undergraduate classes and to graduate students.<\/p>\n