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Kate Magargal seminar: “Local knowledge, global forces: Climate change, energy transitions, and energy justice in southern Utah”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

295 FASB. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-uspzkqEtA6qwJGEBKfVAJMU0q6o2qZ Human–environment relationships are fundamental to environmental and energy justice, and in many contexts, Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) is integral to such relationships. For example, Diné elders and community members identify firewood harvested from local woodlands as central to cultural and physical survival as, for Diné people, […]

GCSC Seminar – “Disturbing Rhetorical Ecologies: Thinking with “Invasive” Species”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-ChrjwtH9HV1i0OVtv9wFre8iTer4vF Abstract: Grappling with hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses circulating around the spotted lanternfly, a species of planthopper accidentally introduced to the U.S. around 2014, in this presentation I argue that “rhetorical disturbances” unsettle the “violent rhetorical ecologies” in which many of us […]

Seminar: Indoor Air Quality at the U of U

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

295 FASB; coffee and cookies in the lobby prior to the seminar. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtfuusrDwtH9JoPXmE6RN0mVw3U0y4k0Vu Individuals spend up to 90% of their time indoors, and poor indoor air quality (IAQ) is associated with numerous adverse human health effects. Yet, it has been less frequently studied than outdoor air quality.  Particulate matter […]

GCSC Seminar: Jory Lerback “Inclusive Sustainable Resilience”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

"What is “Inclusive Sustainable Resilience”, and how does my iso-bio-geo-chemistry skillset move us towards these ideals? Stories from a groundwater-reliant scientist" 295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcu2upjsqHNWo65Y280BXsYZ_pfr6qWkJ Abstract: I first review what resilience and diversity means in the intersecting diversity/equity/inclusion and sustainability/environmental spaces. I illustrate how my […]

GCSC Seminar: Jeff Robison “Climate change and global child health”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdOitqjIpGNb1fz3N7H6hHaMM8dSXvFGN Abstract: Climate change threatens to reverse gains in global child health made over the past 50 years. Greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution that result from the burning of fossil fuels pose the greatest public health threat of our generation. Climate […]