NSF and NIH Grants Totaling $6.4 Million Go to Three CUNY ASRC Scientists
Posted on September 27, 2019
Three researchers at the CUNY ASRC have been awarded multi-year, federal agency grants to address topics in protein regulation and the response of the U.S.’s food-energy-water systems to climate change. [...]
ASRC and GC Sciences Faculty and Students Publish Op-Ed for Climate Change Week NYC 2019
Posted on September 26, 2019
The Gotham Gazette op-ed offers pointers to help NYC gardeners mitigate contaminants in soil. [...]
Recent Study on Declining Snowpack Levels by ASRC Researcher Andrew Reinmann Featured in The New York Times
Posted on May 6, 2019
Maple trees need to be about 40 years old before they can be tapped for syrup, but a recent study suggests that the changing climate is a threat to that process of growth and renewal, said ASRC researcher Andrew Reinmann in The New York Times. [...]
Recent Study on Declining Snowpack Levels by ASRC Researcher Andrew Reinmann Featured in The Maple News
Posted on April 11, 2019
Details of ASRC Researcher Andrew Reinmann's latest study on the effect of declining snowpack levels on sugar maple trees have been featured in The Maple News: A loss of snowpack, and in turn a deeper frost layer, dramatically reduces the ability of the sugar maple to take up water and nutrients through frost damaged roots, according to researchers.Read More [...]
ASRC Researcher Andrew Reinmann Pens Article for The Conversation Exploring the Risk of Declining Winter Snowpack in Northeast Forests
Posted on December 4, 2018
Environmental Science Initiative researcher Andrew Reinmann has a new article published in The Conversation—a news platform that allows academics to share their expertise with the general public and shed light on key news events of the day. In this new piece, Reinmann and his research partner, Boston University researcher Pamela Templer, breakdown findings from theirRead More [...]
Study Shows Winter Snowpack Declines May Reduce Tree Growth and the Ability of Forests to Filter Carbon from Our Air and Water
Posted on December 3, 2018
Findings also suggest a variety of industries in the Northeast could be negatively affected by warming trends, including maple syrup, timber and snow sports NEW YORK, December 1, 2018 – Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95Read More [...]
Professor Peter M. Groffman Pens Climate Change Policy Op-Ed for CNN Opinions
Posted on October 25, 2018
Local governments can take steps to resist federal rollback of legislation meant to protect the climate, writes ASRC Environmental Science Initiative Professor Peter Groffman. [...]
Wetter Soil Is Leading to Reduced Methane Gas Absorption
Posted on August 6, 2018
The trend could accelerate an increase in atmospheric methane levels and intensify global warming. [...]
ESI scientists publish new findings on thermal pollution impacts in the Mississippi River watershed
Posted on March 9, 2018
Scientists from The City University of New York (CUNY), Sandia National Laboratories, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have published a new paper in Environmental Research Letters evaluating thermal pollution, typically addressed in terms of its impact on aquatic habitat and life, with respect to its constraints on electricity production for the first time. The paper -- "ThermalRead More [...]
Scientists at City University of New York and Harvard University Team Up with UBS Asset Management to Establish a “New Calculus for Sustainable Investing”
Posted on February 1, 2018
NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2018 – Scientists at The City University of New York (CUNY) and Harvard University, in partnership with UBS Asset Management, have developed a scientific framework to inform investment decisions that make positive contributions to sustainable environmental stewardship and human well-being. Among the beneficiaries are the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that promoteRead More [...]
Microbe Cataloguing on a Mega Scale
Posted on January 29, 2018
Microbes are incredibly varied and key to earth’s biodiversity. Cataloging their abundance, composition, and characterization is a daunting task — one that has never been undertaken, until now. A groundbreaking global study of microbial diversity that included researchers with the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY,Read More [...]
New Study Suggests the United States’ Power Supply Has the Capacity to be More Adaptable to Climate Change than Previously Predicted
Posted on October 30, 2017
NEW YORK, October 30, 2017 — Climate change scientists warn that the continued burning of fossil fuels is likely to cause major disruptions to the global climate system leading to more extreme weather, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss. The changes also will compromise our capacity to generate electricity. In recent decades, capacity losses atRead More [...]
Groffman’s Study into Urban Ecosystem Homogenization published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
Posted on August 25, 2017
Expansion of urban, suburban and exurban land in the United States over the past several decades has led to neighborhoods in very different parts of the country featuring patterns of roads, residential lots, commercial areas and aquatic features that are more similar to each other than the native ecosystems they replaced. In research funded byRead More [...]
The ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative welcomes its newest members
Posted on April 13, 2017
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Environmental Sciences Initiative is excited to welcome several new members, each of whom will be working with ASRC Professor Peter Groffman on new research projects. These projects will contribute greatly to our understanding of human-dominated and natural systems, particularly those across the eastern and northeastern U.S. Julie Weitzman, aRead More [...]
Andrew Reinmann joins the CUNY ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative as newest faculty hire
Posted on February 1, 2017
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center welcomes Dr. Andrew Reinmann to its Environmental Sciences Initiative as an Assistant Professor, joining Initiative Director Charles J. Vörösmarty and Professor Peter Groffman as the third of four faculty members with the initiative. Reinmann—who will also hold an assistant professorship with Hunter College’s Department of Geography—has a research focusRead More [...]
Inside the CUNY ASRC with Zachary Tessler, PhD
Posted on January 30, 2017
Zachary Tessler, PhD Research Assistant Professor and manager of the Coastal Science Synthesis Facility in the CUNY ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative A physical oceanographer by training, his work focuses on environmental change in river deltas and implications for natural and human systems in the coastal zone Studies the risk faced by cities and communities on river deltasRead More [...]
New results and findings by Environmental Sciences Initiative researchers and affiliates over Fall 2016
Posted on December 14, 2016
CUNY ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative (ESI) researchers and affiliates were featured in a number of publications that came out over Fall 2016! A few highlights include: ESI Director Charles Vörösmarty served as one of the authors of the latest Arctic Report Card for 2016, which considers a range of environmental observations throughout the Arctic. ItRead More [...]
Congratulations to Environmental Sciences Initiative Affiliate Ph.D. student Andrea Gomez on her winning poster!
Posted on December 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/WileyPolymers/status/800696643196686336 Congratulations to ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative (ESI) Affiliate Ph.D. student Andrea Gomez on winning one of the Wiley poster prizes at the recent ASRC Inaugural Open House on November 17, 2016! The Open House offered researchers to tour the ASRC’s cutting edge core user facilities and a chance to speak with the researchers working atRead More [...]
Hungarian President Áder tours CUNY ASRC prior to UN Climate Change Summit
Posted on May 24, 2016
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center was honored to host Hungarian President János Áder and First Lady Anita Herczeg on Thursday, April 21, in advance of his participation at the United Nations Climate Change Summit. President Áder heard presentations from the ASRC’s Environmental Sciences Initiative (ESI), led by Director Dr. Charles J. Vörösmarty, prior toRead More [...]
Scientists from the Environmental CrossRoads Research Group contribute to report assessing risks to the world’s shared river basins
Posted on May 6, 2016
The first global assessment of threats and risks to transboundary river basins has been released by a consortium of institutions* led by the UNEP-DHI Center for Water and Environment and including the Environmental CrossRoads Research Group of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center’s Environmental Sciences Initiative. Around the world, there are 286 transboundary river basins,Read More [...]
Peter Groffman announced as professor with ASRC Environmental Sciences Initiative
Posted on November 23, 2015
Dr. Peter M. Groffman has been named to the faculty at The City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center’s (ASRC) Environmental Sciences Initiative. “I am delighted to welcome Dr. Peter Groffman to CUNY,” said Dr. Gillian M. Small, Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director of the CUNY ASRC. “He is an exceptionallyRead More [...]
ASRC Environmental Sciences to welcome CUNY environmental science research community for November 12 symposium
Posted on October 26, 2015
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center’s (ASRC) Environmental CrossRoads Initiative will host a day-long symposium titled “Environmental Science at the CrossRoads: Advancing Interdisciplinary Research at CUNY” on November 12. This symposium will highlight interdisciplinary environmental scientific research happening at CUNY and discuss key theoretical and methodological issues occurring across scales, from the nano to theRead More [...]
Environmental Sciences Initiative team members featured in Science, Daedalus and Global Environmental Change on global water systems
Posted on August 20, 2015
Five papers written by members and affiliates of The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Advanced Science Research Center’s (ASRC) Environmental CrossRoads Initiative have been published recently, including three in Science magazine. “We’re very proud of the exemplary work from Environmental CrossRoads led by Dr. Charles Vörösmarty at the ASRC,” said Dr. Gillian Small, CUNYRead More [...]
Delivering Water From Disaster
Posted on June 18, 2013
Some 350 experts from around the world recently issued the Bonn Declaration on Global Water Supply -- a sobering report on our conflicted relationship with water and the consequences of decades of thoughtless neglect and misguided decisions. Charles J. Vörösmarty, director of the ASRC’s Environmental CrossRoads Initiative, was part of the team that drafted theRead More [...]
Vörösmarty Addresses UN Group on Global Water Crisis
Posted on May 2, 2013
Charles J. Vörösmarty, director of the ASRC’s Environmental CrossRoads Initiative, will speak to United Nations representatives on the emerging global water crisis at a meeting at the Hungarian mission on May 3. Dr. Vörösmarty will discuss global threats to human water security and biodiversity. The meeting is hosted by the Steering Group of theRead More [...]
