Events & Outreach

HMEI Faculty Seminar: “The Urbasphere: How Humans, Infrastructure and Nature Shape the Emerging Environment of Cities”

Elie Bou-Zeid, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associated faculty in HMEI, will present “The Urbasphere: How Humans, Infrastructure and Nature Shape the Emerging Environment of Cities” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Bou-Zeid is the final speaker in the fall 2022 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.

In the past 50 years, the global population living in cities increased from 35% to 55%, and may be nearly 70% by 2050. Urban population density and its associated infrastructure and resource needs create an environment unlike any other on Earth. Understanding and managing the “urbasphere” has never been more urgent as cities emerge as the central stage for confronting global challenges related to climate, population, resources and equity, among others.

This seminar is free and open to the public with registration. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.

Additional dates and speakers in this series are below.

SEPTEMBER 20

“Ancient Bubbles Tell Future Climate Stories” — John Higgins, Associate Professor of Geosciences

OCTOBER 4

“Multispecies Mutual Ecologies: People and Primates Recasting the Anthropocene Dynamic” — Agustin Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology

NOVEMBER 1

“Disease in Motion and Landscapes of Health“ — C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs