Innovations in Building Intelligent Cities
March 13, 2017 ・ Bennett McIntosh for the Office of the Dean for ResearchInterdisciplinary work of faculty to find new ways to build urban infrastructures.
Forecast: a Podcast About Climate Science and Climate Scientists
February 21, 2017 ・ Igor HeifetzPEI Associate faculty member, Gabe Vecchi, recently interviewed for podcast by Nature’s climate science editor.
How Temperature Guides Where Species Live and Where They’ll Go
February 16, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsA Princeton University-based study suggests that the ranges of birds in the world’s temperate mountain areas may actually be determined more by temperature and habitat.
PEI Awards $374,000 for Innovative Research, Teaching, Mentorship, and Service focused on Urban Sustainability
February 7, 2017 ・ Joanna M. Foster ’08 for the Princeton Environmental InstitutePrinceton Environmental Institute has announced awards totaling $374,000 to support five faculty research projects as part of the Urban Grand Challenge – one of several long term research cooperatives that comprise its Grand Challenges program. With the majority of the…
FACULTY HONOR: Tarnita Named ESA Early Career Fellow
February 6, 2017 ・ Holly WellesCorina Tarnita was named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
PEI Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
February 1, 2017 ・ Joanna M. Foster ’08 for the Princeton Environmental InstituteThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is pleased to welcome Gabriel Vecchi, Luc Deike, Laure Resplandy, and Xinning Zhang.
Will It Rain? Monitoring Program Puts Crucial Info in Hands of Remotest Farmers
January 31, 2017 ・ Wendy Plump for the Office of Engineering CommunicationsTeam of Princeton engineers have deployed an advanced drought and flood risk monitoring program for environmentally vulnerable regions in Africa and in Latin America. The program assimilates data that are plentiful but hard to analyze for those on the ground.
Writing Environmental Ruin, or How to Write an Obituary for an Embattled Planet
January 26, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsIn an effort to merge the humanities with environmental consciousness Göran Blix and Rob Nixon use literature and the arts to bring the long-term natural and social fallout of environmental ruin to life for students.
In African ‘Fairy Circles,’ a Template for Nature’s Many Patterns
January 19, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly, Office of CommunicationsScientists have long debated how landscape-scale plant patterns such as the famous “fairy circles” of Namibia form and persist.
