Blight2Right: A Novel Community-Based Project Focusing on Eliminating Illegal Dumping in Flint, Michigan

…in Flint, Michigan, a community battling high levels of dumping and health disparities potentially associated with this hazardous blight, much of it magnified by the city’s ongoing water crisis. The…

Laurel Lynch (Soil + Crop Sciences)

…meet ~40% of the carbon reductions needed to keep climate warming below 2°C and confer co-benefits, such as wildlife habitat, improved human health outcomes, and better air and water quality….

Remote Sensing of Greenland’s Supraglacial Hydrology in a Changing Climate

…radar data to study how meltwater flows across the ice sheet surface and how some of that water is temporarily impounded in subsurface buried lakes. The researchers’ work will provide…

Prince Ochonma (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

…producing H2 from renewable biomass sources with in-situ CO2 capture. The building blocks for this technology include water, aqueous or solid biomass, and alkaline resources such as industrial residues or…

Adaptive Agricultural Landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco

…systems design, sensible water allocation strategies, and efforts to match crop genetic traits to stress-prone environments. By collaborating with public and civil society organizations, researchers hope to increase food security…

Luisa Cortesi (Anthropology)

…in the environmental knowledge of increasingly disastrous waters, in particular floods and toxic drinking water, and environmental justice. She works primarily in North Bihar, India, a place that is recurrently…

Soil Health Assessment, Management, and Policy to Support Sustainable Land Management in China (TNC)

…1/14th of the world’s arable land area, while resources diminish and the climate changes. In order to ensure future food, water, and energy security, the health of China’s soils must…

Deploying Novel Sensor Technology and Proven Data Analytics to Assess Fugitive Emissions from the Hydrogen Supply Chain (EDF Impact Grant)

…highly flammable. H2 in the atmosphere can warm the climate indirectly by extending the lifetime of methane, triggering reactions that form tropospheric ozone, and breaking down into water vapor in…

Cornell University at UN Biodiversity COP16

2020: Hotspots of Nitrogen Loss in River Basins (EDF)

Researchers will examine nitrogen runoff in the watersheds of both the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the Chesapeake Bay. Nitrogen is a vital nutrient for agricultural production, but nitrogen runoff…