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SUMMARY:Environmental Sciences Seminar: Jason M. Kelly\, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jason M. Kelly\, Ph.D.\, FSA. Director\, IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute Prof. of History\, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI \nTitle: Transdisciplinarity and the Museum of the Anthropocene \nAbstract: The Museum of the Anthropocene (MoA) is an experimental and interactive program that creates short-term\, interactive\, and networked exhibitions in communities around the globe. Bringing together knowledge from across the disciplines\, MoA installations explore the ways in which new knowledge emerges when scientists\, social scientists\, humanists\, and artists work together with local communities. This presentation will discuss the theoretical framework for thinking about a museum in the Anthropocene as well as introduce the audience to its current project\, The ecomposition Symphony. \nBio: Jason M. Kelly is Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and Professor of British History in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the chair of the “Memory\, Place\, and Community in Global Water Systems” Working Group of the Sustainable Water Future Programme\, a project of Future Earth. Dr. Kelly received his Ph.D. from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and is the author of The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment [yalebooks.yale.edu] (Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art\, 2010)\, lead editor of  Rivers  of  the  Anthropocene [ucpress.edu] (University of California Press\, 2017)\, and co-editor of An Anthropocene Primer [anthropoceneprimer.org] (2017). As Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute\, Dr. Kelly supports IUPUI’s research mission by directing the IAHI grant programs\, identifying and fostering transdisciplinary research collaborations\, and  organizing  research  workshops  and symposia. He also acts as a liaison to the Indianapolis community\, and in this capacity facilitates collaborative endeavors including performances\, lectures\, and research projects. Dr. Kelly’s current research projects focus on the histories of the environment\, sciences\, and art and architecture . He is currently writing A History of the Anthropocene\, a deep history of human- nature relations. He leads a major international  collaborative project\, Rivers of the Anthropocene [rivers.iupui.edu]\, which brings together scientists\, humanists\, and policy makers to study global freshwater systems and policy. He directs The Cultural Ecologies Project [culturalecologies.org]\, a research program and PhD track that works with community stakeholders to study and design cultural interventions across multiple scales — from the personal to the neighborhood to the city level. \nVirtual participation: Click here to join through Zoom. Note: you may be asked to install a small Zoom app before being able to join. In case the link does not work\, the Zoom Meeting ID is 347 137 665.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/environmental-sciences-seminar-jason-m-kelly-iu-school-of-liberal-arts-at-iupui/
LOCATION:ASRC 5th Floor Data Visualization Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences
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SUMMARY:Environmental Sciences Seminar: Sonali McDermid\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sonali McDermid\, Ph.D. Assistant Professor\, Dept. of Environmental Studies at New York University \nTitle: Representing Agriculture in Earth System Models: Climate Impacts\, Uncertainties\, and Priorities for Development \nAbstract: Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: climate impacts\, uncertainties\, and priorities for development. Roughly 40% of Earth’s land surface is devoted to agriculture\, which is increasingly intensively managed owing to 20th century technological advances and market demands. Agriculture and food systems contribute nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and require copious resources\, such as water\, fertilizer\, and land. While the climate impacts of land cover conversions have been well studied\, uncertainties remain in quantifying important agricultural management•climate effects related to surface moisture and energy balances\, interactions with large- scale circulation\, and biogeochemical cycling. Despite these uncertainties\, and externalities\, agriculture is increasingly being leveraged to function as a net sink of anthropogenic carbon\, and there is much emphasis on future “sustainable intensification”. There is thus is a need for improved approaches to represent agriculture in global climate and earth system models (ESMs). I will begin my talk by reviewing recent advances to incorporate agricultural land use and management in ESMs. I will then describe my specific efforts to improve agricultural representations in the NASA GISS ModelE ESM\, inclusive of time-varying irrigation\, crop calendars and phenology\, and most recently the impacts of agriculturally-driven soil degradation\, and their resulting impacts on regional land-atmosphere interactions and climate dynamics. To end\, I will highlight key uncertainties and limitations to these approaches\, and suggest future trajectories for community-wide modeling efforts. These include developing an improved understanding of how agriculture modifies key biogeophysical and biogeochemical climate processes\, and its potential role in climate change mitigation. \nBio: Dr. Sonali McDermid is a climate scientist and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU. Her research focuses on understanding both the impacts of climate change on food security\, and the interactions between agricultural landuse and regional climate systems. To advance this work\, she uses a variety of methods\, including global earth system models\, crop models\, and observational datasets. She also serves as the Climate Co-Lead for the Agricultural Model lntercomparison and Improvement Project (www.agmip.org). which is undertaking assessments of climate change\, food security\, and adaptation/mitigation options across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. McDermid holds a Ph.D. (2012) from the Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in Atmospheric Science and Climatology. Prior to her appointment NYU\, she was NASA Post- Doctoral Fellow at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in NYC.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/environmental-sciences-seminar/
LOCATION:ASRC 5th Floor Data Visualization Room\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences
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SUMMARY:Objects & objectivities: Convergences in epistemic divergence
DESCRIPTION:An art exhibit of paintings\, photographs\, and scientific imaging\, featuring the work of Linda Vigdor\, Ye He\, and Andrew Reinmann. \nPlease register to attend the exhibition opening and reception on Thursday\, November 21\, 2019. The exhibit will be available for viewing until December 21\, 2019. \nIt may be reasonably argued that science\, at least in part\, is driven by humans’ desire to control nature\, as well as a belief that we can\, and should (or are entitled to do so). From this vantage point comes a not unrelated notion of objectivity – that the truths of scientific knowledge and observation are unfettered by human biases. Objectivity\, in this picture\, is truth. The works in this exhibition present different orientations to objectivity as each investigates some aspect of the mechanisms\, outcomes\, and questions regarding the intersection of the brain and our environment\, from different epistemological lenses.
URL:https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/exhibition-objects-objectivity-convergences-in-epistemic-divergence/
LOCATION:ASRC 4th Floor Foyer\, 85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental Sciences,Nanoscience,Neuroscience,Photonics,Structural Biology
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