Envi Sci graduate student Stephanie Roe was a part of the UVA team that won this year’s Patagonia Case Competition. The competition had 108 submissions on the topic of how to make Patagonia a carbon-neutral company by 2025. UVA was selected first as one of 10 finalists, presenting its winning proposal at the UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business on April 20th.
New power plant study by Envi Sci research team highlights potential national, regional, and local health impacts of power plant regulatory rollback. The study in Energy Policy is available without subscription until Nov 21, 2018.
Envi Sci professor Deborah Lawrence was interviewed by the Guardian and UVA Today about her recent statement with 39 other scientists by the Climate and Land Use Alliance and her article published by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation on the importance of forests and ending deforestation to our carbon budget.
The Write Climate Earth Week Exhibit, which was on display in Clark Hall from April 17 – 23, was covered in a recent article in the Cavalier Daily.
A recent study by Envi Sci research associate Salvi Asefi-Najafabady and professor Deborah Lawrence has been published in the journal Climate Change and covered by UVA Today. The study used models to predict future occurrence of heat stress, finding that 10s of millions of people in East Africa could face over 100 additional days of dangerous heat per year by 2090.
Retired professor Vivian Thomson and her book Climate of Capitulation were quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Research by the Virginia Coastal Reserve LTER (VCR LTER) and UVA Envi Sci’s Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center (ABCRC) on seagrass restoration on the DelMarVa Peninsula was featured in a recent WVTF story by Pamela D’Angelo. VCR LTER and ABCRC site director Cora Johnston was interviewed about the restoration’s success, which has been carried out by the Nature Conservancy and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and threats from climate change and off-shore drilling
