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.
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.
Invention produces cleaner water with less energy and no filter
May 8, 2017 ・ Morgan KellyResearchers in the lab of Howard Stone have reported a technique for using carbon dioxide in a low-cost water treatment system.
Study: Cold Climates and Ocean Carbon Sequestration
March 15, 2017 ・ Igor HeifetzFormer Princeton graduate student Xingchen Wang is lead author of a climate study published in PNAS on research he conducted while working in Daniel Sigman’s lab.
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.
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Competition, Hydraulic Damage, and the Universal Rules Regulating Plant Water Use
October 11, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzTiny valves on the surfaces of leaves, called stomates, regulate carbon gain and water loss by plants, and are thus linchpins of the global carbon and water cycles. Amazingly, the same simple model regulates stomates worldwide. This model is backed…
With Droughts and Downpours, Climate Change Feeds Chesapeake Bay Algal Blooms
August 11, 2016 ・ Bennett McIntosh for the Office of the Dean for ResearchA study led by Princeton University researchers shows that weather patterns tied to climate change may increase the severity of algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay.
PEI Awards $840,000 for Innovative Research, Teaching, and Mentorship in Water and the Environment
June 13, 2016 ・ Molly Sharlach for the Princeton Environmental InstituteThe Princeton Environmental Institute has awarded a total of $840,000 to support seven original research projects which will become the nucleus of a new Grand Challenges cooperative focused on environmental issues associated with physical, chemical, and biological aspects of oceans…
PEI Hosts Fifth Annual Discovery Day
May 10, 2016 ・ Holly P. WellesDiscovery Day is a multidisciplinary poster session celebrating undergraduate senior thesis research on environmental issues.
