Global Change and Sustainability Center

03/19/2024

Join us for the next seminar by Matthew Fry, March 26, 4pm, 295 FASB and online. https://www.environment.utah.edu/seminar-series/

03/08/2024

Join us to hear from alum Jonathon Preece, who shows the relationship between climate change, atmospheric circulation patterns & accelerated melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

01/09/2024

Er meh gerd! Look at this ermine!

11/17/2023

This past September 2023, U of U Environmental Humanities graduate student Sydney Murray and Parks, Recreation and Tourism PhD student Hilary Lambert coordinated Camping in Color, a family camping program for Black youth and their families in and around the Salt Lake Valley area in partnership with various community partners and organizations including, but not limited to, Ashley Cleveland from Outdoor Auntie, U of U Sustainability Office, Curly Me SLC, and REI.

Come join us on December 6 at 7 p.m. to listen and celebrate this SCIF funded experience at the Alumni House. This program was designed to enhance and support a sense of belonging, connection and engagement in nature amongst the local Black community through environmental education and recreation. This program was designed gain insights on how to meaningfully and responsibly do diversity, equity and inclusion work in outdoor programming. Attending this U of U Campus Story Hour event will be an opportunity to learn about the research, the program, watch a short documentary film on it, and hear from some of the BIPOC leaders on the team and some of the camp families who participated to learn about their experience and how it made for a meaningful, culturally-responsive experience in/with nature.

Registration is required via the link! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/story-hour-camping-in-color-tickets-739461698847?aff=oddtdtcreator

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11/08/2023

Next seminar: Global energy transitions away from fossil fuel help mitigate climate change but may exacerbate energy inequity in places like Navajo Nation, generating a call to action for centering place-based knowledge to inform new energy paradigms.

Seminars are at 4:00 pm on alternate Tuesdays in room 295 fasb. participants may also join via zoom. To receive notifications, join our email list. Seminars are open to all, and students who are enrolled in the Seminar course, SUST 6800, have additional opportunities to engage with the speakers. Vid...

10/10/2023

In yet another innovation, John Lin and colleagues use Google Street View cars and modeling to detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots in the Salt Lake Valley. This new modeling approach uses modeled wind patterns and statistical analysis to trace pollution back to its source location to a scale previously missed by coarser scale monitoring projects that have traditionally characterized air quality averaged over an entire urban airshed.

Google Street View cars sampled air quality at a scale fine enough to capture variations within neighborhoods. A new atmospheric modeling method can identify pollution emission sources in many cities.

10/09/2023

To build on the U’s current efforts supporting women from diverse backgrounds, especially Women of Color and q***r women, the university is embarking on an institutional transformation project using a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation under its ADVANCE program, devoted to enhancing the role of women in the nation’s STEM workforce.

The U is embarking on an institutional transformation project using a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation under its ADVANCE program.

09/01/2023

September 12 seminar: Jason Robison, Professor of Law & Social Responsibility, University of Wyoming College of Law.
“Try Again”: Arizona v. Navajo Nation & the Colorado River

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Arizona v. Navajo Nation decision in June 2023 holds important implications for Colorado River management— particularly, federal-tribal relations over the river system—as new climate change-driven water management rules are negotiated by 2026.

Seminars are at 4:00 pm on alternate Tuesdays in room 295 fasb. participants may also join via zoom. To receive notifications, join our email list. Seminars are open to all, and students who are enrolled in the Seminar course, SUST 6800, have additional opportunities to engage with the speakers. Vid...

06/13/2023

Congratulations to GCSC Director Brenda Bowen, who will be taking on an additional leadership role as chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
Bowen says, "my goal is to build on the department’s leadership in advancing field stations and long-term field-based science, commitment to conducting and advancing community-based research with highly significant societal relevance, and dedication to training students for careers of the future.”
In addition to her geologic research and teaching, Brenda works to facilitate interdisciplinary sustainability research, practice, and academic programs that address critical issues related to understanding global change and creating sustainable solutions related to energy, resources, climate and equity. https://science.utah.edu/faculty/brenda-bowen-atmos/?fbclid=IwAR09R27Rsj9lP3sIMuaBTGcIGlDYFsJiUeGuSSVlvfhMlZNPiyPm9ub2H7Y

Brenda Bowen will take over as ATMOS chair

06/13/2023

06/12/2023

Researchers at the U are studying air quality in campus buildings to better understand where ventilation and filtration strategies could improve the health of occupants while maximizing energy efficiency. Kerry Kelly, Tabitha Benney, are Daniel Mendoza are faculty who were awarded SEED2SOIL grants. This program aims to leverage the world-class research capacity of the University of Utah to generate ideas and knowledge that can improve campus operations while also contributing broader knowledge and/or application.

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05/30/2023

Derek Mallia, research assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and GCSC affiliate, is studying where these dust storms are having the greatest impact on residents.

After historic snowfall over the winter, Utahns are breathing a sigh of relief about the Great Salt Lake. But they'd better not breathe too deeply — it still is blowing an immense amount of dangerous dust pollution along the Wasatch Front.