Climate Futures Initiative: “Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon”
David Anthoff, assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California-Berkeley, will present a talk at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71. More details to come. The talk is presented…
PEI Faculty Seminar: “Ocean Nitrous Oxide — No Laughing Matter”
Bess Ward, William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, will present, "Ocean Nitrous Oxide — No Laughing Matter," at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. This event is free and open to…
The Multispecies Salon: Environmental Humanities Dialogues
During the fall semester, the Princeton Environmental Institute is hosting a series of lunchtime discussions organized and led by Eben Kirksey, Visiting Professor of Anthropology and the 2015-16 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and…
The Two Cultures in Environmental Studies
Just over 50 years ago, C. P. Snow delivered a now famous lecture at Cambridge University. His subject was "The Two Cultures," the sciences and the humanities. Straddling the two (he was both a chemist and a prolific novelist), Snow…
Human Archipelago: A Conversation with Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh
Author Teju Cole and photographer Fazal Sheikh, the PEI Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities, will discuss their upcoming book, "Human Archipelago," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. Forthcoming for June 2019,…
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Women and Men in the War Against Erosion”
Micah Muscolino, professor of Chinese history at the University of California-San Diego, will present, "Women and Men in the War Against Erosion: Gendering Water and Soil Conservation in Mao’s China," at 4:30 p.m. Wed., March 13, in East Pyne, Room 111. This is…
The Amazon: A Resilient Natural System, or the Ebb of the Green Ocean?, Professor David Medvigy
Speaker: Professor David Medvigy, Geosciences
Applications, information session for PEI-STEP Graduate Fellowship Program
The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is accepting applications for the PEI-STEP Fellowship Program through Tuesday, April 2. An information session with Michael Oppenheimer, PEI-STEP Director and Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute, will be held from 1 p.m.-1:45…
Bradford Seminar: “A Rational Basis for Hope”
Louis GrossLouis Gross, Chancellor's Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, will present, "A Rational Basis for Hope: Human Behavior Modeling and Climate Change," at noon Monday, March 11, in Wallace Hall, Room 300. This event is…
