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Abandoned Wells Can Be ‘Super-emitters’ of Greenhouse Gas

December 9, 2014 ・ John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications

Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown, and possibly substantial, source of the greenhouse gas methane to the Earth’s atmosphere. After testing a sample of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, the researchers found that many…

Risk Analysis for a Complex World

November 18, 2014 ・ Holly Welles
S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

Research on Site: The Princeton Campus as Living Lab

November 11, 2014 ・ Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research
S.O.S. sign written in beach sand near beach waves hahaha

FACULTY AWARD: Levin Receives 2014 Luca Pacioli Prize for Interdisciplinary Approach

October 7, 2014 ・ Holly Welles

Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and PEI associated faculty member, has been awarded the “2014 Luca Pacioli Prize” by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The Prize is conferred to internationally renowned scholars…

Fall Foliage Season May Be Later, But Longer On Warmer Earth

September 18, 2014 ・ Wendy Plump for the Princeton Environmental Institute

Center for BioComplexity News – Fall 2014

September 13, 2014 ・ Contributed by Sandra Milburn for PEI

CBC Researchers Receive Funding for Three New Collaborative Projects Simon Levin and James Watson (Stockholm Resilience Centre) were chosen by Princeton’s Council for International Teaching and Research to receive a grant from the Princeton Global Collaborative Networks Fund.  Levin and…

Coal’s Continued Dominance of Global Industrialization Must Be Made More Vivid in Climate Change Accounting

August 21, 2014 ・ Holly P. Welles

Emissions that occur over the lifetime of a fossil-fuel-burning electric generator are today routinely assigned to the year of emission ((a), blue blocks). Socolow and Davis present an alternate accounting where the same emissions are instead recorded as committed emissions…