New results and findings by Environmental Sciences Initiative researchers and affiliates over Fall 2016

Posted on December 14, 2016 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative

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. It highlights and documents the changes that continue to occur in, and among, the physical and biological components of the Arctic environmental system:

  • Richter-Menge, J., J. E. Overland, and J. T. Mathis, editors (2016). Arctic Report Card 2016, http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.

Vörösmarty and Senior Research Associate Vanesa Rodríguez Osuna also were co-authors of a recent publication describing the roles that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals play in water availability and use:

  • Bhaduri, A., J. Bogardi, A. Siddiqi, H. Voigt, C. Vörösmarty, C. Pahl-Wostl, S.E. Bunn, P. Shrivastava, R. Lawford, S. Foster, H. Kremer, F.G. Renaud, A. Bruns, and V.R. Osuna (2016). Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a water perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00064.

Balázs Fekete, an ESI Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York, was a co-author of a Nature Communications article describing the development of a new standardized metric to assess the cumulative impact of human activity on the terrestrial environment over the period of 1993-2009:

Fekete also was lead author on a publication assessing the current state of Global Circulation Models:

Further, Fekete and ESI Associate Director Anthony Cak were authors of a paper modeling the energy costs to deliver water and heat to and within New York City:

Cak also was a co-author of a recent ethnography exploring the different approaches to using and interpreting participatory sketch maps and classified satellite imagery by farmers and scientists:

Finally, Michael Piasecki, an ESI Affiliate and Associate Professor for Water Resources at The City College of New York, and his PhD student Paul Celicourt were co-authors of two publications highlighting the use of sensors (including wireless devices) for hydrological monitoring:

For more information, please contact:
Anthony Cak, Associate Director, Environmental Sciences Initiative
anthony.cak@asrc.cuny.edu
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
85 Saint Nicholas Terrace
New York, NY 10031
Phone number: 212.413.3141
asrc.gc.cuny.edu/environment