Drones, Thorns and New Orleans: PEI’s Summer of Learning Symposium features breadth of undergrad research
October 30, 2017PEI’s internship program’s projects focused on global environmental challenges in the areas of policy and resilience, biodiversity and conservation, alternative energy, climate and oceans, and water, soil and human health.
How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
October 11, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyResearchers have struggled to model accurately the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the “North American monsoon.”
Amilcare Porporato, 10 associated faculty join PEI
September 28, 2017 ・ Morgan Kelly,The Princeton Environmental Institute has added core faculty member Amilcare Porporato and 10 associated faculty to its roster.
PEI Urban Challenge awards $348,000 to new urban sustainability projects
September 18, 2017Extreme waves and cloudbursts: PEI’s Urban Grand Challenges program has funded three new urban-sustainability projects totaling $348,000.
Orange is the New Green: How Orange Peels Revived a Costa Rican Forest
August 22, 2017Princeton University researchers discovered the power of agricultural waste to potentially regenerate forests and mitigate carbon at low cost.
Eight graduate students receive 2017 Hack Awards for study of water issues
July 21, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyEight Princeton University graduate students were selected to receive 2017 Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Awards from the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Nitrogen contained in coral provides evidence of human impact on the open ocean
May 19, 2017 ・ Pooja Makhijani, Office of Communications“Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition is, perhaps, substantially less severe than has been argued,” said Daniel Sigman.
Rethinking the Nature and History of Conservation
May 1, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyJacob Dlamini, assistant professor of history, uses Africa’s ecological history to discuss the effectiveness and morality of conservation.
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.
