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Kristina Sokourenko (Development Studies)
…how small-scale fisheries in Lagos, Nigeria, sustain urban food security under climate stress, pollution, and rapid coastal development. Nigeria has built one of the region’s strongest food security monitoring systems,…
Hannah Gurholt (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
…altering how communities move, behave, and survive. Light pollution either comes directly from streetlights and buildings or indirectly from reflections off the atmosphere. One of the world’s most well-known butterflies,…
Optimizing Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes to Eliminate Emissions of PFASs and High Global Warming Potential Gases
…tools to reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and persistent chemical pollution. Investigators: Damian E. Helbling (Cornell Duffield Engineering/Civil and Environmental Engineering), and Judy Cha (Cornell Duffield Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering)…
Power Huron Project
California’s planned electricity rate reform will save $700 million and prevent 8 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year. The state’s transition to time-of-use pricing, however, may stall if…
Eric Teplitz (Public & Ecosystem Health)
…scale as a consequence of anthropogenic nutrient pollution. Concurrently, aquaculture production systems, which are pivotal to achieving food security yet impact aquatic ecosystem health, are proliferating rapidly. Navigating the food…
Healthy Living in Smart Cities
Urban communities face major sustainability challenges that affect public health and quality of life, including snarled traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, and pollution. The researchers will design a comprehensive information infrastructure:…
After the Conifers Die
…die? Wildfires often follow, along with pollution and habitat changes that allow parasites to spread, and the whole ecosystem suffers the consequences: plants, birds and mammals, and human beings. Based…
Cooperative Strategies for Just and Ecological Adaptation to Flooding in New York City
…racialized minorities, is often sited in less desirable, flood-prone areas. Silos among researchers and practitioners working on climate adaptation and those working on housing and advocacy impede the design of…
Funding
Catalyzing Innovative Research for Impact At the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, we provide both short- and long-term funding, often in partnership with other organizations, for novel and sometimes high-risk,…
Joseph McFadden
…transition cows. Specifically, McFadden is working to identify fatty acid feeding regimens that optimize the ability of methyl donor supplementation to enhance hepatic triglyceride disposal in transition cows. Third, he…