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Presentations are in person in SB C-207<\/a> from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:30 pm – Zoom ID: 843 0287 5858 Password: 672323<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 09\/03\/2025 – Ashley Iervolino, Staff Scientist II at Roux Associates and QC Alum – “A DISCUSSION OF CAREERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING AND THE WORK OF ROUX ASSOCIATES<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/10\/2025 – Zoe Krauss, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences The University of Washington – “Long-term Earthquake Data Unlocks the Story of a Mid-Ocean Ridge<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/17\/2025 – Dr. Stephen Pekar, Professor; Queens College School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Climate Change: What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/08\/2025 – Career Panel Event – Dara Laczniak, Guest Speaker: Dr. Nathan Epler, EKI Environment & Water, Inc – \u00a0“Beyond the Degree: Finding Your Future Career<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/15\/2025 – Corinne Hartin, Director of Science – Silver Lining –\u00a0 “Anthropogenic footprints: tracking the impacts of climate change<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/22\/2025 – Julie Huber, Senior Scientist, MC&G Assistant Dean of Postdocs Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – “Diving into the Deep Ocean on Earth and Ocean Worlds Beyond<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/29\/2025 – Austin Chadwick, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Ocean and Climate Physics Lamont-Soherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School. – “River systems: their origins, evolution, & response to our rapidly changing world<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 11\/05\/2025 – Dara Laczniak, Lecturer (Doctoral), Planetary Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Career Panel Event, “GRAD SCHOOL INFO SESSION<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/12\/2025 – Ceclia McHugh, Distinguished Professor School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “New techniques to recognize deposits from dangerous tsunamigenic earthquakes: Application to the Japan Trench<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 11\/19\/2025 – Grace Bungenstab Alves, Assistant Professor Department of Geography Federal University of Bahia, UFBA, Brazil. – “Soils as Storytellers: decoding landscape evolution in Brazil\u2019s tropical drylands<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 11\/26\/2025 – Liang Xue, Assistant Project Scientist Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences University of California, Davis – “Modeling the Interaction between Surface Processes and Tectonic Deformation in Continental Rifts<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 12\/03\/2025 – Mike Kaplan, Lamont Research Professor ,Geochemistry, in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Holocene climates in the Southern Hemisphere, and was there a European-like Little Ice Age?<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 12\/10\/2025 – Peer Mentor Presentation -(Michaela Chiu, Candace Anderson, Raquel Mendez, Kristine Mikhaylov, Clohie Clarke, Jennifer Chen, Laiba Mahmood) School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC –\u00a0 “SEES Fall 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Presentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:30 pm – Zoom ID: 843 0287 5858 Password: 672323
<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 02\/05\/2025 – Kevin Konrad – Assistant Professor of Marine Geology, Oregon State University – “Over 110 Million Years Of Samoan Hotspot Volcanism: New Insights Into Mantle Plume Dynamics<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/10\/2025 – Yan Zheng, PhD – Chair Professor, School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology – “The Story of Groundwater: Think Globally, Act Locally<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/19\/2025 – Kirsty J. Tinto – Researcher, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Greenland Rising: Coastal Communities and the Impact of Sea Level Change in Greenland<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/26\/2025 – Eric Greppo, Jean Patota – “Beyond the Degree: Geology Careers & Licensure in NYS<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 03\/12\/2025 – Pedro Val and Pedro Oliveira – LEGACi Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Dating the Incision of the Lower Amazon River<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- CANCELED<\/b> 03\/19\/2025 – Christine Ramadhin, PhD – Doctoral Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College – “Enhancing Student Achievement in a Large Geoscience Course through Active Learning Strategies<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 03\/26\/2025 –\u00a0Mr. Michael Reed, a former Product Engineer for Esri and fellow graduate student, Ms. Meagan Lenna, an Assistant Geologist at the NYS Department of Transportation – “Beyond the Degree: Finding your Future Career<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/02\/2025 – Roman DiBiase, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, – “Large-scale mapping of post-wildfire dry sediment loading using repeat airborne lidar in southern California.<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/09\/2025 – Mike Gurnis, Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology, – “The Churning Interior of Planet Earth \u2013 A view of the Pacific over the Cenozoic<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/23\/2025 – Chuixiang Yi, PhD, Professor, SEES, – “Integrating Nonlinear Dynamics into Ecosystem Respiration: The Michaelis-Menten Q10 Model<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/30\/2025 – Franco Cortese, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center Queens College, – “Volcanic Crystals in Four Dimensions from the 2021 Eruption of Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/07\/2025 –\u00a0Justin Adamson, Emily Albines, Candace Anderson, Victor Barrientos, Jennifer Chen, Kristine Mikhaylov, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC. – “Spring 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/12\/2025 – Shan Gao, PhD Associated Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, – “Decoding core ecological processes from tree rings<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/14\/2025 – Students of GEOL 102, 200, & 201, “Poster Session, Spring 2025<\/a>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- SEES Colloquium Fall-2024 schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 09\/04\/2024 – Eric Kutter | Queens College BCCHE \u201cNew York City Community Air Survey<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/11\/2024 – Francesc Ortega | Queens College Economics \u201cFinancial resilience to Flood Risk: the National Flood Insurance Program<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/18\/2024 – Chuixiang Yi | Queens College SEES \u201cBifurcated response of a regional forest to drought<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/25\/2024 – Benjamin Sulman | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cModeling wetland biogeochemistry and its responses to climate change<\/a>\u201d
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/09\/2024 – Fernanda Santos | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cDisturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Fernanda Santos’ TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/16\/2024 – Gregory O\u2019Mullan | Queens College SEES \u201cA multi-decade view of lower Hudson River water quality and coastal management challenges<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 10\/23\/2024 – Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva, | New York University “PaleoScan: Large-Volume Fossil Scanning<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva’s TALK <\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/30\/2024 – Peer Advisor Event | Queens College SEES \u201cBeyond the Degree:\u00a0 Finding your Future Career.<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Advisor Event<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/06\/2024 – John Stix | McGill University \u201cForecasting volcanic eruptions<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF John Stix’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/13\/2024 – Cecilia McHugh | Queens College SEES \u201cSedimentary signatures of large earthquakes along a submerged transform plate boundary, Northern Caribbean<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 11\/20\/2024 – Gillian Stewart | Queens College SEES \u201cA regional approach to understanding the role of the ocean in anthropogenic climate change<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 12\/04\/2024 – Mousong Wu | Nanjing University \u201cUsing a new assimilation system to understand how ecosystems cycle water and carbon: Integrating multiple observations with NUCAS v1.0<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a>WATCH THE VIDEO OF Mousong Wu’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 12\/11\/2024 – SEES Peer Mentors | Queens College SEES \u201cThe Fall 2024 Peer Mentors\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-201 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/31\/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpr\u00e9, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/7\/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After Queens College<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/21\/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/6\/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic<\/a>“.
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou\u2019s TALK<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n- 3\/13\/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City\u2019s urban estuaries<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 3\/20\/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/27\/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/3\/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/10\/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/17\/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA\u2019s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/1\/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 5\/8\/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/15\/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Presentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:30 pm – Zoom ID: 843 0287 5858 Password: 672323
<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 02\/05\/2025 – Kevin Konrad – Assistant Professor of Marine Geology, Oregon State University – “Over 110 Million Years Of Samoan Hotspot Volcanism: New Insights Into Mantle Plume Dynamics<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/10\/2025 – Yan Zheng, PhD – Chair Professor, School of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology – “The Story of Groundwater: Think Globally, Act Locally<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/19\/2025 – Kirsty J. Tinto – Researcher, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – “Greenland Rising: Coastal Communities and the Impact of Sea Level Change in Greenland<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 02\/26\/2025 – Eric Greppo, Jean Patota – “Beyond the Degree: Geology Careers & Licensure in NYS<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 03\/12\/2025 – Pedro Val and Pedro Oliveira – LEGACi Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – “Dating the Incision of the Lower Amazon River<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- CANCELED<\/b> 03\/19\/2025 – Christine Ramadhin, PhD – Doctoral Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College – “Enhancing Student Achievement in a Large Geoscience Course through Active Learning Strategies<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 03\/26\/2025 –\u00a0Mr. Michael Reed, a former Product Engineer for Esri and fellow graduate student, Ms. Meagan Lenna, an Assistant Geologist at the NYS Department of Transportation – “Beyond the Degree: Finding your Future Career<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/02\/2025 – Roman DiBiase, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, – “Large-scale mapping of post-wildfire dry sediment loading using repeat airborne lidar in southern California.<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/09\/2025 – Mike Gurnis, Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology, – “The Churning Interior of Planet Earth \u2013 A view of the Pacific over the Cenozoic<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/23\/2025 – Chuixiang Yi, PhD, Professor, SEES, – “Integrating Nonlinear Dynamics into Ecosystem Respiration: The Michaelis-Menten Q10 Model<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 04\/30\/2025 – Franco Cortese, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center Queens College, – “Volcanic Crystals in Four Dimensions from the 2021 Eruption of Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/07\/2025 –\u00a0Justin Adamson, Emily Albines, Candace Anderson, Victor Barrientos, Jennifer Chen, Kristine Mikhaylov, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC. – “Spring 2025 Peer Mentors and Advisors<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/12\/2025 – Shan Gao, PhD Associated Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, – “Decoding core ecological processes from tree rings<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 05\/14\/2025 – Students of GEOL 102, 200, & 201, “Poster Session, Spring 2025<\/a>“.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:30 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- SEES Colloquium Fall-2024 schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 09\/04\/2024 – Eric Kutter | Queens College BCCHE \u201cNew York City Community Air Survey<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/11\/2024 – Francesc Ortega | Queens College Economics \u201cFinancial resilience to Flood Risk: the National Flood Insurance Program<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/18\/2024 – Chuixiang Yi | Queens College SEES \u201cBifurcated response of a regional forest to drought<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/25\/2024 – Benjamin Sulman | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cModeling wetland biogeochemistry and its responses to climate change<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/09\/2024 – Fernanda Santos | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cDisturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Fernanda Santos’ TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/16\/2024 – Gregory O\u2019Mullan | Queens College SEES \u201cA multi-decade view of lower Hudson River water quality and coastal management challenges<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 10\/23\/2024 – Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva, | New York University “PaleoScan: Large-Volume Fossil Scanning<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva’s TALK <\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/30\/2024 – Peer Advisor Event | Queens College SEES \u201cBeyond the Degree:\u00a0 Finding your Future Career.<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Advisor Event<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/06\/2024 – John Stix | McGill University \u201cForecasting volcanic eruptions<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF John Stix’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/13\/2024 – Cecilia McHugh | Queens College SEES \u201cSedimentary signatures of large earthquakes along a submerged transform plate boundary, Northern Caribbean<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 11\/20\/2024 – Gillian Stewart | Queens College SEES \u201cA regional approach to understanding the role of the ocean in anthropogenic climate change<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 12\/04\/2024 – Mousong Wu | Nanjing University \u201cUsing a new assimilation system to understand how ecosystems cycle water and carbon: Integrating multiple observations with NUCAS v1.0<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a>WATCH THE VIDEO OF Mousong Wu’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 12\/11\/2024 – SEES Peer Mentors | Queens College SEES \u201cThe Fall 2024 Peer Mentors\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-201 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/31\/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpr\u00e9, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/7\/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After Queens College<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/21\/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/6\/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic<\/a>“.
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou\u2019s TALK<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n- 3\/13\/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City\u2019s urban estuaries<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 3\/20\/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/27\/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/3\/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/10\/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/17\/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA\u2019s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/1\/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 5\/8\/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/15\/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Spring 2023″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n
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\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:30 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- SEES Colloquium Fall-2024 schedule<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 09\/04\/2024 – Eric Kutter | Queens College BCCHE \u201cNew York City Community Air Survey<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/11\/2024 – Francesc Ortega | Queens College Economics \u201cFinancial resilience to Flood Risk: the National Flood Insurance Program<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/18\/2024 – Chuixiang Yi | Queens College SEES \u201cBifurcated response of a regional forest to drought<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 09\/25\/2024 – Benjamin Sulman | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cModeling wetland biogeochemistry and its responses to climate change<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/09\/2024 – Fernanda Santos | Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u201cDisturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Fernanda Santos’ TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/16\/2024 – Gregory O\u2019Mullan | Queens College SEES \u201cA multi-decade view of lower Hudson River water quality and coastal management challenges<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 10\/23\/2024 – Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva, | New York University “PaleoScan: Large-Volume Fossil Scanning<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva’s TALK <\/a><\/li>\n- 10\/30\/2024 – Peer Advisor Event | Queens College SEES \u201cBeyond the Degree:\u00a0 Finding your Future Career.<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Advisor Event<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/06\/2024 – John Stix | McGill University \u201cForecasting volcanic eruptions<\/a>\u201d
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF John Stix’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 11\/13\/2024 – Cecilia McHugh | Queens College SEES \u201cSedimentary signatures of large earthquakes along a submerged transform plate boundary, Northern Caribbean<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 11\/20\/2024 – Gillian Stewart | Queens College SEES \u201cA regional approach to understanding the role of the ocean in anthropogenic climate change<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- 12\/04\/2024 – Mousong Wu | Nanjing University \u201cUsing a new assimilation system to understand how ecosystems cycle water and carbon: Integrating multiple observations with NUCAS v1.0<\/a>\u201d
\n<\/a>WATCH THE VIDEO OF Mousong Wu’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n- 12\/11\/2024 – SEES Peer Mentors | Queens College SEES \u201cThe Fall 2024 Peer Mentors\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-201 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/31\/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpr\u00e9, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/7\/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After Queens College<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/21\/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/6\/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic<\/a>“.
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou\u2019s TALK<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n- 3\/13\/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City\u2019s urban estuaries<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 3\/20\/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/27\/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/3\/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/10\/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/17\/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA\u2019s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/1\/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 5\/8\/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/15\/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF Benjamin Sulman’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n\n
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF Fernanda Santos’ TALK<\/a><\/li>\n\n
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF Cl\u00e1udio T. Silva’s TALK <\/a><\/li>\n\n
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<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Advisor Event<\/a><\/li>\n\n
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF John Stix’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n\n
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<\/a>WATCH THE VIDEO OF Mousong Wu’s TALK<\/a><\/li>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Spring 2024″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n
\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-201 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/31\/2024 – Marc-Antoine Longpr\u00e9, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “A CURE* in SEES *course-based undergraduate research experience<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/7\/2024 – Lexi Kenis. MS and PhD Student, University of New Mexico – “Pursuing Graduate School After Queens College<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 2\/21\/2024 – Pedro Val, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “The Amazon rainforest: from rocks to life<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/6\/2024 – Lu Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University – “Advancements in polar sea ice monitoring: integrating altimeter and radiometer satellite data in the Arctic and Antarctic<\/a>“.
\n<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou\u2019s TALK<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n- 3\/13\/2024 – Dianne Greenfield, PhD Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY – “Characterizing nutrient influences on the microbiome of New York City\u2019s urban estuaries<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 3\/20\/2024 – Fernanda Santos, PhD, Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “Disturbance effects on soil carbon pools and fluxes<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 3\/27\/2024 – Yi Yin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University – “Unequal Exposure to Heat Extremes: Case Studies in Los Angeles and New York City<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/3\/2024 – Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke – “Student Research Presentations from Soule Research Lab<\/a>“.
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/10\/2024 – Allan Ludman, PhD, Professor emeritus, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY – “AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS TO DECIPHER THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN APPALACHIANS<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 4\/17\/2024 – Wenge Ni-Meister, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College of The City University of New York – “Leveraging NASA\u2019s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission Measurements for Large-Scale Aboveground Biomass Estimation<\/a>”
\nWATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/1\/2024 – Xiyan Xu, PhD, Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China – “Harnessing terrestrial ecosystems to combat climate change: challenges and opportunities<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 5\/8\/2024 – The SEES Spring 24 Peer Mentors (Emily Albines, Hannah Goykadosh, Alyse Jofre, Caleb Stewart, Yaacov Strickon, Adriana Zumba-M) – “School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, QC<\/a>”
\n WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n- 5\/15\/2024 – Students of GEOL 201 – “Results of the Canary Project, Spring 2024<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a> WATCH THE VIDEO OF Dr. Lu Zhou\u2019s TALK<\/a> <\/strong><\/li>\n\n
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WATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr. Greenfield’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/sees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-27-163632-300x159.png\")
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Pr.Yi Yin’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/sees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-162332-300x169.png\")
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Jacqueline Singer, Melissa Celik, Cal Mills and Julia Sandke’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/sees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-10-143600-300x168.png\")
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Allan Ludman’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/sees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-17-155838-300x170.png\")
WATCH THE VIDEO OF Wenge Ni-Meister’s TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/sees\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-08-140405-e1715191620971-300x177.png\")
WATCH THE VIDEO OF The Peer Mentors’ TALK<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Fall 2023″ _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- 9\/13\/23 – Dr. Alia Lesnek Assistant Professor, Queens College – “Reconstructing late Quaternary climate and tectonics with glacial fans in the Teton Range, Wyoming<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 9\/27\/2023 – Pr. Ryan O’loughlin, Queens College – “A Philosophical Take on Error and Lower-Skill Models in Climate Science<\/a>“.<\/li>\n
- 10\/04\/2023 – Dr. Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College -“Navigating the Challenges of Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Remote Sensing for Earth Property<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/11\/2023 – Dr. William Blanford, Queens College – “Case study in applied environmental technology: Development of antimicrobial medias for water treatment<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/18\/2023 – Dr. Dara Laczniak, Queens College – “Protons and Ions and Dust, Oh My! Improving Models of Space Weathering in a Decade of Sample Return<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 10\/25\/2023 – Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, Barry Commoner Center “Medicine vs public health: two profoundly different approaches to health?<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/1\/2023 – Yuemei Ye, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Lehman College – “Innovating Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Applications<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/8\/2023 – Laura DeMott (USGS New York Water Science Center) “Old Data, New Maps\u2014Updating Bedrock Surfaces in New York City with 100+ Years of Data.<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 11\/15\/2023 – Chuixiang (Tree) Yi, PhD \u201cWater limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
- CANCELLED<\/strong> 11\/29\/2023 – Jonathan Kingslake, PhD \u201cPast and present flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a>“<\/li>\n
- 12\/06\/2023 – The SEES Peer Mentors, QC “SEES peer mentors: Increasing Engagement in Undergraduate Classrooms<\/a>“<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nPresentations are in person in SB C-207 from 12:15 pm \u2013 1:15 pm<\/strong><\/h4>\n- \n
- 1\/25\/23 – No Talk – Intro to the course.<\/li>\n
- 2\/1\/23 – Pedro Val, (QC\/CUNY) – Landscape Evolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/15\/23 – Joerg Schaefer (Columbia U, LDEO) – Climate, glaciers, society, geochemistry, <\/strong>Greenland Ice Sheet\u2014Past and Future.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 2\/22.23 – Dorothy Pateet (Nasa, LDEO, Columbia U) –<\/strong> Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, Wetlands,<\/strong> Hudson Marsh Sediment Archives and the Stories They Tell.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/1\/23 (ONLINE ONLY) – Julie Fosdick (University of Connecticut) – Tectonics. Thermochronology, Sedimentry basins. <\/strong>From isotopes to mountain slopes: Building mountains amidst rising seas in the Patagonian Andes.<\/a> (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/8\/23 – (ONLINE ONLY) – Dr. Maya Stokes (Assistant Professor,Florida State University) – Geologic mechanisms of freshwater fish speciation in the southeast<\/a> United States. (THIS WEEK ONLINE ONLY).<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/15\/23 – Dr. Stephen Pekar (Professor, Queens College, CUNY) – Solving the mystery of high CO2 and high ice-volume <\/strong>estimates during the Middle Miocene (16-13 Ma), the last time CO2 was higher than today.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- 3\/22\/23 – Arjun Venkatesan (Stony Brook) – Water, contaminants enviromental analysis<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 3\/29\/23 – Kim Huppert (CCNY, CUNY) – Ocean island geomorphology.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/5\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/12\/23 – No Talk \/ Spring Recess<\/li>\n
- 4\/19\/23 – Dr. Ana Carnaval (CCNY, CUNY) – Historical Biogeography, Biodiversity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 4\/26\/23 – TBD<\/li>\n
- 5\/3\/23 – Emma Harrison (Dalhousie U) – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5\/10\/23 – Graduate student presentations.<\/li>\n
- 5\/17\/23 – Peer mentor presentations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- 2\/8\/23 – Caio Mattos (Prinston U) – Hydrology, ecology, plant physiology<\/strong>, The Good and Bad of a Shallow Water Table in Tropical Ecosystems.<\/a><\/li>\n
- 9\/20\/2023 – Pr. Stephen Pekar, Queens College – “Climate Change : What it means for our future and what we can do about it!<\/a>“.<\/li>\n