UMass Students Stress Resilience in Combating Climate Change

UMass Students Stress Resilience in Combating Climate Change

Courtesy: WWLP  AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) - Hope and resilience were the themes of Wednesday's Earth Day Celebration at the UMass School of Earth and Sustainability in Amherst. Students told 22News that the stakes are high, but they're working to find ways to cope with climate change. "What happens to our food if climate change comes about," graduate student Rachel Berggren said. "So that's what we're going to do to bring people together, using art as a tool for communication." In keeping with the theme of the day, the keynote speaker stressed the need to be hopeful. The head of the School of Earth and Sustainability, Dr. Curt Griffin, told 22News that he's confident concerned young people will eventually find ways to protect our planet from pollution. "Oftentimes, we worry about the future," Dr. Griffin said. "But with this group of students, their enthusiasm, their knowledge, I feel we're in very good hands." Advocates for change believe everyone can do their part to protect the place where we live. Individual action can...
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Alison Bates Co-awarded NSF Grant for Multi-disciplinary Offshore Wind Study

Alison Bates Co-awarded NSF Grant for Multi-disciplinary Offshore Wind Study

Courtesy of College of Natural Sciences        Multi-disciplinary group developing infrastructure for offshore wind  September 17, 2018 A team of scientists including Alison Bates, environmental conservation and School of Earth & Sustainability, and Sanjay Arwade, civil and environmental engineering, has been awarded an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) Planning Grant to identify with industry partners the key priorities for offshore wind.  The project brings together those with relevant expertise in offshore wind energy from several engineering disciplines, fields of science, the national laboratories, state and federal resource management agencies, industrial stakeholders, and developers; as well as those from affected coastal communities.   UMass has the potential to play a key role in setting national priorities for wind energy based on a data-driven, multi-disciplinary system-level framework to identify where advances are needed in science, engineering, and process in order to create a resilient infrastructure that enables responsible wind energy.    This project will include two workshops at UMass Amherst this spring that will bring global experts to campus to discuss convergent research objectives and approaches. Bates will spearhead a workshop on social acceptance and ecological considerations relative to...
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SES Launch Student Showcase

      Submissions accepted until April 12 at 5 pm. Submit here The School of Earth and Sustainability is a proud partnership with the Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Geosciences, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and the Environmental Microbiology Group from the Department of Microbiology. Please contact for questions....
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