In 2019, University of Utah atmospheric scientists, the Environmental Defense Fund and other partners added a new tool to their quiver of air quality monitors—two Google Street View cars, Salt Lake Valley’s roving sentinels that would detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots. In the ensuing months John Lin, professor of atmospheric sciences at the U, developed […]
Read MoreGCSC affiliate faculty Bill Anderegg, Sara Grineski, Tim Collins and colleagues have published a study looking at the potential effects of wildfire and tree mortality on property values in these areas in the U.S. Earth’s rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising […]
Read MoreThe College of Science and the College of Mines and Earth Sciences (CMES) are pleased to announce that Professor Brenda Bowen has agreed to serve as the next chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, beginning July 1, 2023. She will continue as the Director of the GCSC while serving as chair and will replace […]
Read MorePictured above, L-R: Lauren Barth-Cohen, Brett Clark, Brian Codding, Kenneth Golden At the close of the 2022-2023 academic year, the University recognized the contributions of outstanding faculty who affiliate with the GCSC: Kenneth M. Golden, distinguished professor, Department of Mathematics, received the Calvin S. and JeNeal N. Hatch prize in teaching. “Having more than 40 […]
Read MoreOur colleagues at the Wallace Stegner Center for the Environment in the S.J. Quinney College of Law hosted events this past year focusing on Utah water, including the serious decline of the Great Salt Lake. The Stegner Center’s 28th annual symposium was themed “The Future of the Great Salt Lake”. One of the world’s largest […]
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