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T’áá hwó ají t’éego and the end of the Navajo coal industry

via Zoom

Andrew Curly In 2021 the Navajo Generating Station, a long standing symbol of coal energy in the southwest, was demolished. The power plant ended operations the previous year, which signaled the end of coal mining in Black Mesa. In this presentation, Curley will discuss the deeper meaning and contestations of coal within the Navajo Nation […]

Meha Jain

via Zoom

Meha Jain School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Joint Colloquium with The George Perkins Marsh Institute Adapting to Global Environmental Change: How Can We Ensure Food Security in a Time of Uncertainty? Global environmental change, including climate change and natural resource degradation, is challenging food security around the world. This is particularly true […]

Lucy Hutyra

via Zoom

Lucy Hutyra Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University Impacts of Urbanization & Landscape Fragmentation on the Carbon Cycle Forest fragmentation is ubiquitous across urban and rural areas. While there is mounting evidence that forest fragmentation alters the terrestrial carbon cycle, the extent to which differences in ambient growing conditions between urban and rural landscapes […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Speaker Series – Sacoby Wilson

via Zoom

Sacoby Wilson University of Maryland, Dept of Public Health New Earth Conversation event co-sponsored by Geography A Syndemic 400 Years in the Making In the United States, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have been impacted by systemic racism and structured inequalities since the founding of this country.  Communities of color do not have […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Speaker Series – Sharlene Mollet

via Zoom

Sharlene Mollet University of Toronto, Dept of Human Geography CO-Sponsored with IDCE Tourism Troubles: Feminist political ecologies of land and body in the making of residential tourism space in Panama In this address, I examine the ways in which settler colonial logics shape residential tourism development on the Atlantic Coast of Panama. With a focus […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Speaker Series – Alex Tarr

via Zoom

Alex Tarr Worcester State University Dept Of Earth, Environment and Physics Beyond Berkeley: Critical Cultural Landscape Studies and A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area has long been celebrated and decried as a hearth of liberalism and radicalism in the United States. Place names like “San Francisco,” “Berkeley” […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Speaker Series – Danielle Wood

via Zoom

Danielle Wood   Joint Colloquium with the George Perkins Marsh Institute MIT Media Lab, Director of the Space Enabled Research Group Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group The presentation will present the work of the Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. The mission of […]