Gund Institute Podcasts
104 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Gund Institute is a leading center for sustainability research and education at the University of Vermont.
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Kelsey Gleason: Human Health at the Intersection of the Environment and Humanitarian Crises
August 30, 2022 04:19 - 51 minutes - 29.1 MBGrowing variability in the natural environment is anticipated to increase the burden of infectious diseases, including diarrheal diseases, worldwide. The implications of this complex web of factors contributing to diarrheal disease are particularly concerning for the highest-risk populations, such as those living in refugee camps. As climate change and deforestation threaten to disrupt ecosystems globally, and as the burden of refugees continues to grow, a better and more comprehensive unders...
Elizabeth Palchak: The Sustainability Imperative at UVM – Research, Partnerships and Measurement
August 30, 2022 04:16 - 54 minutes - 31.5 MBElizabeth Palchak leads the Office of Sustainability, connecting academics, research, operations, and engagement to amplify UVM’s impact and contributions to sustainable solutions. Elizabeth earned her BA from The College of Wooster and her Ph.D. from the Rubenstein School of Natural Resources, with a focus on social science and the clean energy transition. Prior to her work in the Office of Sustainability, Elizabeth was a Senior Energy Consultant with VEIC, a sustainable energy company based...
Mark Usher: Following Nature’s Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World – An Origin Story
August 30, 2022 04:14 - 51 minutes - 28.2 MBWhat value can the study of classical literature, history, and philosophy contribute to the modern world’s ecological and economic challenges? Are older ways of thinking and living worth our time to consider, or reconsider? Are they viable modes of engagement with the world today? Mark thinks so, and his talk – a /précis/ of my latest book – aims to explain how and why. Mark Usher is a Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and a faculty member in the Department of G...
Jennifer Lai: Environmental Knowledge in Type 2 Diabetes Science
August 24, 2022 17:08 - 52 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this talk, Jennifer Lai will discuss how the Social Construction of Nature complicates the discourse surrounding environmental factors in type 2 diabetes science. When discussed in relation to type 2 diabetes, health scholars and practitioners describe environmental factors as factors that are “not genetic” or as elements of a “kitchen sink,” i.e., myriad social and material infrastructures that prevent access to nearly all aspects of healthy living. Jennifer draws from feminist science an...
Gillian Galford: Insights from the Vermont Climate Assessment
August 24, 2022 16:46 - 48 minutes - 27.6 MBThe Vermont Climate Assessment (VCA) examines current trends and impacts of climate change within our state. This talk will highlight VCA findings on the effects of global change on Vermont’s people, economy, and environment. VCA thoroughly examines the effects of climate change in Vermont and is a key input into climate planning actions. Gillian L. Galford is a Research Associate Professor in the Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources and a Fellow of the Gund Institute...
Dave Chapman: Why a Scrappy Bunch of Farmers Decided They Could Do It Better Than the USDA
August 23, 2022 14:34 - 46 minutes - 25.3 MBIn 2017 a small group of Vermont organic farmers met to decide the next steps after years of failed attempts to reform the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP). The very foundations of organic were threatened as industry joined and then overwhelmed the NOP. Deciding that it couldn't go on, the farmers began the Real Organic Project. This quickly became a national movement that attracted many of the pioneers of the American organic movement. Dave will describe the failures that drove the fa...
Deb Neher: Biological Indicators and Compost for Managing Plant Disease
August 23, 2022 14:22 - 51 minutes - 30.9 MBCompost is a controlled aerobic biological process that follows a trajectory of ecological succession and offers ecosystem services beyond fertility and carbon sequestration. As a living entity, compost is a substrate to disseminate consortia of microbes to soil that can promote plant growth by tipping the balance between pathogens and natural antagonists. Not all composts are created equal. Both recipe and compost process are manageable factors that affect the community ecology and can make ...
Gus Speth: The Big Lesson from Four Decades of Federal Climate Failure
August 23, 2022 14:01 - 49 minutes - 31 MBListen in as Gus Speth speaks about insights from his book, _They Knew_. As early as the Carter Administration, in which Speth served, experts in and out of government argued for climate action, urgings well-covered in the media at the time. Six administrations followed, with next to nothing being done to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and much being done to sustain them. There are lessons to be learned for the future, especially one big lesson. Gus Speth: In 2009, he completed his ...
Eric Bishop-von Wettberg, Travis Reynolds, Dan Tobin: The Consortium for Crop Genetic Heritage
April 18, 2022 02:10 - 53 minutes - 30.5 MBSpeakers: Eric Bishop-von Wettberg (he/him), Travis Reynolds (he/him), and Dan Tobin (he/him) We are launching the Consortium on Crop Genetic Heritage, a group of researchers and practitioners who view the maintenance and promotion of crop diversity as critical to building resilient agricultural systems positioned to address climate change, increase access to culturally meaningful crops, and promote empowerment and self-determination. Through our work, we conduct basic and applied researc...
Yolanda Chen: How People Shape Evolutionary Processes in Agroecosystems
April 18, 2022 00:39 - 52 minutes - 29.2 MBAlthough agroecosystems now dominate the terrestrial world, we have a limited understanding of how their origin and culture shape agrobiodiversity and its functioning. By studying these processes in Mexico, a major center of crop origin, we have been focused on understanding how people shape agrobiodiversity and the implications for sustainable agriculture. Since seed systems structure how people acquire seeds, changes in social context influence evolutionary processes within agroecosystems. ...
Eglee Zent: Trekking Among Shallow and Deep Ecologies in the Amazon
April 18, 2022 00:30 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBDuring this presentation, Dr. Zent will offer an overview of several learning experiences acquired over 20 years of conducting research in the Amazon region. The challenges of articulating scientific and Indigenous peoples' epistemologies and ontologies have proven to be a complex and winding journey, filled with many trials and errors, but also insights and privileges. This trek between different worlds of understanding and being on the earth has allowed us to present a synthesis of teaching...
Josh Tewksbury: Science, Sustainability, and Society – Building Bridges
April 01, 2022 19:55 - 56 minutes - 33.1 MBWhat is changing, and what needs to change as sciences grapple with the increasing urgency of the moment? Tewksbury will provide individual, institutional, and international perspectives on these questions, taken from the last 15 years of working around the world to support science organizations – universities, NGOs, funders, networks, and research institutes – to increase their reach, relevance, and impact on the major sustainability challenges we face today. The talk will explore notions ...
James Salzman: The Past, Present, and Future of Payments for Ecosystem Services
April 01, 2022 18:17 - 49 minutes - 27.1 MBInterest in payments for ecosystem services (PES) has exploded over the past two decades around the globe, from China and Australia to Peru and Vermont. The lecture explores the ascent of PES, where it has worked, where it hasn't worked, and what we should expect going forward. James Salzman is one of the world's leading authorities on PES and has worked with governments worldwide to design their programs. James (Jim) Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law w...
Cheryl Pinto: A Conversation with Ben & Jerrys’ Sorceress: The Magic of Values in the Supply Chain
March 16, 2022 20:52 - 54 minutes - 35.6 MBCheryl Pinto, Global Head of Values Led Sourcing for Ben & Jerry’s, sits down with Alissa White, Gund Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Regenerative Agriculture, for an open conversation on a variety of topics spanning the opportunities and challenges of driving positive social impact while working with farmers at origin, all the way through the value chain to bakers and candy-makers. This fire-side chat conversation incorporates engagement and questions from the audience. Pinto spoke at UVM...
Cheryl Morse: Rural Refuge? Environmental Displacement in COVID Times
March 16, 2022 20:46 - 58 minutes - 36.7 MBCheryl Morse reports on findings from a study titled “Who are the New Vermonters?” The research emerged from conversations with rural geographers across the Global North who began to see new in-migration streams to the countryside at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. This moment of new in-migration to Vermont, and other rural places, provides us an opportunity to learn what newcomers expect of rural places, and therefore to anticipate their impacts on social, cultural, and physical ...
Molly Brown: Better Scientist-Stakeholder Relationships for Greater Research Impact
March 16, 2022 20:41 - 53 minutes - 38.4 MBMolly Brown is a NASA scientist and Gund affiliate from the University of Maryland. She speaks on “Better Scientist-Stakeholder Relationships for Greater Research Impact” at the University of Vermont. Brown explains how NASA uses quantitative data to measure the effectiveness of various research programs. The talk emphasizes using quantitative data over qualitative data to determine program funding. Brown spoke at UVM’s Farrell Hall on September 24th, 2021. Read more about Molly: https://ge...
Roy Beckford: The History and Future of The Land Grant University
March 16, 2022 20:33 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBRock Beckford, UVM’s Extension leader, speaks on “The History and Future of The Land Grant University” at the Gund Institute. Beckford outlines how UVM research and extension programs affect Vermont farmers, decision-makers, and communities. Read more about Roy: https://www.uvm.edu/news/story/fitzroy-beckford-named-director-uvm-extension Beckford spoke at UVM’s Farrell Hall on September 17th, 2021. The hybrid event kicked off the first in-person GundxChange for the Fall 2021 semester. Lear...
Anila Jacob: Integrating Biodiversity Conservation with Global Development Programming at USAID
May 28, 2021 14:40 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a leader in integrating biodiversity conservation with global development priorities such as improving health, strengthening food security, promoting inclusive economic growth, and mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this presentation, Anila Jacob discusses her experiences working with USAID on activities that integrate biodiversity conservation with development sectors such as food security, global health, and climate chang...
Xavier Brown: Utilizing the Wisdom of Nature to Rebuild and Heal Communities in Washington, DC
May 28, 2021 14:39 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBLearning from personal mistakes and mistakes of others to create new cultures and systems, moving from theory to practice in the world of community development. Exploring the intersections of applying nature's natural systems to issues that affect oppressed African American communities in DC. In this talk, Xavier Brown highlights and analyzes three initiatives: Soilful, SouthEats & Black Dirt Farm Collective and discusses how these practices are used in different ways. Xavier Brown is a memb...
Deeohn Ferris: Let's Talk About Race, Equity, Climate Adaptation and Driving Community Resiliency
April 28, 2021 18:59 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThe Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) leads equity-centered, transformative community-driven climate solutions and sustainability projects in the US, India, China, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. As the first African-American woman to lead a US-based international climate organization, president and CEO Deeohn Ferris is changing the landscape in a white male-led field. In this GundxChange talk, Ferris discusses equitable environmental, economic, social and health solutions in respon...
Carolyn Finney: Being Black and Seeing Green - Risking to Gain and Playing the Long Game
April 28, 2021 18:57 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBChristian Cooper. George Floyd. John Muir. Systemic racism. Cancel Culture. In this moment of racial reckoning, how do we call ourselves out in order to call ourselves in? What does "keeping it real" look like in this moment? Our loftier ideals won't matter if we don't deal with the truth on the ground. No matter how rigorous we are in our articulation of diversity and sustainability, our good intentions don't necessarily translate into real change if we haven't dealt with the underlying issu...
Mads Almassalkhi: Mitigating Climate Change with Power Engineering
April 05, 2021 18:42 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIn this talk, Dr. Mads Almassalkhi presents an overview of how power engineering and energy systems modeling and optimization can play key roles to support large-scale integration of renewable generation to enable a clean energy future and mitigate climate change. According to the United Nations, numerous scientific reports, and the majority of Americans, climate change is a global challenge that should be prioritized. One major path forward to mitigate climate change is to install lots of ...
Easton White: Seafood and Fisheries During a Pandemic
April 05, 2021 18:25 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of society and the environment. Seafood and fisheries are potentially particularly vulnerable to such a shock event given the highly globalized trade of seafood, the seasonal nature of many fisheries, and their dependence on restaurant sales. In addition, data on production, trade, and demand for seafood is often only released many months after when they might be useful to manage an emerging event. In this talk, Gund Fellow Easton White combines...
Teresa Mares: A Renewed Call for Worker Justice in Food Systems
March 15, 2021 18:54 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBIn this talk, food systems researcher Dr. Teresa Mares explores the idea of social sustainability as she highlights the contributions of farm and food workers in building more sustainable food systems, both locally and nationally. Teresa Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and Associate Director for the Food Systems Graduate Program. Her research has focused primarily on issues of food access amongst immigrant communities in the United States. She is the...
Emily Belarmino: Sustainable Healthy Diets and Pro-Environmental Behaviors
March 01, 2021 18:31 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBThere is growing scientific consensus that substantial changes to consumption behaviors are needed to reduce the global burden of disease and achieve more sustainable food systems. These changes include, but are not limited to, shifting towards dietary patterns that emphasize plant-based foods and limit animal-source proteins, and reducing food waste. In this talk, Dr. Emily Belarmino discusses individual food-related pro-environmental behaviors and the context in which people engage in these...
Mauricio Bellon: Crop Evolution Under Domestication
February 23, 2021 20:48 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBCrop evolution under domestication is a process that continues today in many parts of the Global South for numerous crops, driven by smallholder farmers growing native varieties of crops. They provide an "evolutionary" service to society by sustaining crop evolution that generates the broad and novel genetic variation necessary for crops to adapt to change, fundamental to achieve sustainable agricultural and food systems. Current agricultural development strategies and related policies spon...
Gina South: Neighborhoods, Urban Nature & Why Place Matters for Health
October 29, 2020 16:08 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBIn this talk, Eugenia (Gina) South critically examines the links between place and health, including the impact that structural racism has had on neighborhood environments. Using urban nature as a case example, this talk looks at the links between nature and health, and the experience of research in vacant lot greening as an example of action-oriented, community relevant scientific inquiry. Eugenia South is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, as w...
Karen Seto: Urbanization: Solution or Crisis for Climate Change?
October 16, 2020 17:35 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBUrban areas produce about 75% of greenhouse gas emissions from final energy use but occupy a small land area on Earth. How can cities be part of the climate solution? In this talk, Gund Institute Advisory Board Member Karen Seto draws on the IPCC 5th Assessment Report to discuss how urban areas can mitigate climate change as well as highlight key knowledge gaps. Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at Yale University, School of the Environment....
Joshua Faulkner: Agriculture, Climate Change & Water Quality in Vermont
October 06, 2020 17:51 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBClimate change is increasing the challenge, and urgency, of finding agricultural management solutions to address water quality concerns and improve resiliency on farms in Vermont. Innovative solutions in how we manage soil, water, and nutrients hold much potential for improved outcomes, but we do not fully understand the effects of conservation practices and their tradeoffs. Gund Affiliate Joshua Faulkner is a Research Assistant Professor and coordinates the Farming and Climate Change Progra...
Rebecca Diehl: Flood Inundation Mapping and Nutrient Retention
September 30, 2020 15:22 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBFloodplain inundation maps provide insight into ecosystem services and help communicate flood risk, yet existing maps are spatially limited and difficult to update. In this talk, recent Gund Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Diehl discusses how her team developed a probabilistic, low-complexity floodplain mapping tool capable of identifying flood inundation extents relatively rapidly and applied it to the Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont. The resulting maps help describe patterns of phosphorus ret...
Jennie Stephens: Diversifying Power - Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate/Energy
September 23, 2020 19:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThe climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. For too long, too many leaders have prioritized corporate profits over the public good, exacerbating climate vulnerabilities while reinforcing economic and racial injustice. But leaders who are connecting climate and energy with job creation and economic justice, health and nutrition, housing and transportation, are advancing exciting transformative change. These bold, diverse leaders are resisting the "polluter elite" to restructure society by ...
Dan Tobin: Smallholder Farmers and Conservation of Crop Diversity
June 17, 2020 18:23 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBCrop diversity is essential to enhance global food security and adapt to climate change, but market requirements, climate change, and agricultural industrialization contribute to high rates of erosion. Still, many small farmers around the world continue to conserve diverse varieties of crops. In this talk, Daniel Tobin (University of Vermont) provides an overview of various projects across Vermont, Peru, Mexico, and sub-Saharan Africa, investigating who conserves crop diversity, their reaso...
Stuart Grandy: Adaptive Plant-Microbe-Mineral Networks Provide Pathways around Nitrogen Limitation
June 10, 2020 20:54 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBNitrogen (N) is a critical, often limiting element for plant and microbial productivity in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in agroecosystems. In this talk, Stuart Grandy (University of New Hampshire) integrates emerging understanding of soil bioavailable nitrogen transformations with progress in understanding plant-microbe-mineral networks and their regulation of the nitrogen cycle.
Brendan Fisher: Managing the Globe for Biodiversity and Human Welfare
June 10, 2020 20:54 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MBHow can we improve human welfare without destroying the planet? In this talk, Gund Fellow Brendan Fisher discusses projects across Asia, East Africa and South America looking at when, where, and how well-functioning ecosystems improve human health, increase household income, and protect biodiversity. While trade-offs between conservation and human development always exist, these projects show that many can be mitigated at low cost to society.
Stephen Posner: Pathways to Impact
June 03, 2020 18:46 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBIn this presentation, Gund Institute Director of Policy Outreach Stephen Posner describes various pathways available for researchers to engage with and impact policy. He also shares insights from the practice of linking environmental research with policy decisions at multiple scales, from state legislatures, to the Executive Office of the President, to the United Nations. Examples cover a range of topics, including ecosystem services, water security, governmental economic accounts, and what...
Rory Waterman: The Phosphorus Problem
May 22, 2020 16:38 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBLocals in Burlington, Vermont see firsthand some of the downstream problems associated with phosphorus utilization and management. However, phosphate-containing ore reserves are limited by many estimates, indicating new upstream problems as well. In this talk, Gund Affiliate Rory Waterman looks at some of these broader issues in efficient phosphorus use as well as phosphorus utilization and remediation. Atoms, like phosphorus, are small but this is a big picture; there will be just enough c...
Ian Deshmukh: Essential Enabling Conditions for Timber Extraction in Community Forests
May 22, 2020 16:17 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this talk, Gund Global Fellow Ian Deshmukh defines critical enabling conditions for community-based forestry enterprises in developing countries. The goal of this analysis is to develop guidance for project implementers to improve community success in sustainable timber extraction. Ian Deshmukh spent 15 years in academia where he taught ecology, conservation biology and evolutionary biology, and conducted research focused primarily on ecosystem processes in African savannas. Prior to his ...
Mark Bradford: Building Confidence in Projections of Global Carbon Cycle-Climate Feedbacks
May 22, 2020 16:07 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBIn this talk, Mark Bradford (Yale University) presents evidence from his group's field research to show that considering local interactions in the context of regional climate gradients suggests the need to update dominant conceptualizations about controls on broad scale carbon cycling. Mark A. Bradford is Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. His group's research reveals how soil microbial processes govern carbon cycle responses to g...
Sustainability in the Pandemic Era
May 22, 2020 13:54 - 1 hour - 124 MBThis Earth Week panel discussion on the COVID-19 crisis covers preliminary research, early lessons, and the new Gund Institute COVID-19 Rapid Research Fund: https://www.uvm.edu/gund/research/covid-19-rapid-research-fund Speakers include: - Director Taylor Ricketts (welcome) - Postdoctoral Fellow Luz de Wit (disease ecology) - Fellow Chris Danforth (mental health) - Fellow Meredith Niles (food insecurity) - Fellow Stephanie Seguino (equity) - Fellow Brendan Fisher (UN SDG impacts) - Fellow Jo...
Andy Revkin: The North Pole Was Here - A Journalist's Quest for Communication Impact
May 06, 2020 18:58 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBIn this illustrated talk, prize-winning journalist Andy Revkin outlines his environmental journey and his call to action for anyone interested in being the signal amid the noise. Revkin describes how storytelling still matters, but shaping constructive conversations may matter more, and how top-down governance still matters, but community-up solutions hold the key.
Pamela Matson: Pursuing Sustainability: Linking Knowledge and Action at Scales that Matter
May 06, 2020 18:44 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this talk, Gund Global Affiliate Pamela Matson (Stanford University) raises the question: how can society make faster progress in the transition to sustainability, and how can science help? Matson discusses models for and pathways by which scientists can encourage transformative change for intergenerational well-being.
Lindsay Barbieri: Complexity in Agroecosystems: Soil, Climate Change, and Information Technology
May 22, 2019 15:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBAs climate change increasingly affects agricultural landscapes, supporting both mitigation and adaptation is critical. The design and implementation of agricultural management strategies that increase social-environmental resilience while reducing negative effects is central to this need -- and there remain many knowledge gaps and decision-making challenges. Grounded by three years of an ongoing four-year study to assess dominant agricultural field management practices in Vermont, we present ...
Gus Speth: Exploring Next System Possibilities
May 22, 2019 14:59 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBThe Next System Project stimulated over two dozen articles spelling out possible "next systems" - alternative political economies looking beyond both state socialism and today's varieties of capitalism. When we step back and look at them together, what do we see?
Britt Holmen: Should I Buy a Prius?.. Advanced Technologies and Human Health
April 16, 2019 17:25 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBStudies of tailpipe emissions from hybrid-electric passenger cars show some unexpected results.
Kai Chan: Relational Policy Mixes for Sustainability
April 16, 2019 17:24 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn response to environmental challenges, policymakers and other actors draw from a basket of well-worn tools, unfortunately yielding a suite of unintended consequences and larger systemic effects that counteract global sustainability. In this talk, I will introduce the notion of relational values (preferences, principles and virtues about human relationships involving nature), and show how these values can guide the implementation of these sustainability tools and their better integration in ...
Brynhildur Davidsdottir: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
April 04, 2019 18:01 - 30 minutes - 42 MBCurrently 86% of primary energy use in Iceland is derived from renewable and domestic energy resources. Two sectors still rely on imported fossil fuels: the fishing industry and transportation. Transitioning to a low-carbon, close to fossil fuel free economy is therefore a possibility in Iceland in the near future and the Icelandic government has proposed to reach carbon neutrality by 2040. Multiple different development pathways are possible towards a low-carbon and a more sustainable energy...
Nick Richardson: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in Vermont
March 20, 2019 15:25 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBNick Richardson of Vermont Land Trust (VLT) speaks on the emerging opportunity of forest carbon offsets in Vermont. VLT research shows that carbon offset programs in the state could promote conservation and improve forest management, if made accessible through aggregation and brought to scale. Richardson says the science clearly outlines where we can have the most impact, and how we can best manage our woodlands.
Francisco Alpizar: Are Resource Conserving Technologies a Win-Win?
February 07, 2019 18:29 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBResource conserving technologies are regarded in policy documents and multilateral agreements as win-win solutions that both reduce the amount of energy and water we use daily, and are also a good investment in itself. In this talk we will explore potential caveats to that argument as we discuss a randomized control trial conducted in Costa Rica precisely to explore both claims.
Christine Carmichael: Health Impacts of Climate Change
February 07, 2019 18:29 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBEfforts to understand and address health effects of climate change are on the rise in the U.S., from the most recent National Climate Assessment to state and local assessments. While these reports enrich our understanding of which types of climate change-related health effects are more likely to affect particular geographic regions and populations, there is little understanding of how residents rank their own vulnerability to health effects of climate change, and the drivers of these response...
Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne: Drones for Community Resilience
December 11, 2018 15:37 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBLocalized natural disasters can have substantial impacts to communities, but support for mapping, monitoring, and mitigating these disasters at the local level is often lacking. This talk will highlight how the UVM Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) team is employing drone technology throughout New England to help communities assess the damage from natural disasters and plan for a more resilient future