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GCSC Seminar “Examining disparities in air pollution exposure and its implications for environmental justice”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB room 295 Abstract: Pollution concentrations in the United States have fallen in recent decades. Despite these improvements, relative pollution concentrations between minority communities and other communities persist. This talk will present ongoing work quantifying pollution gaps across the United States and its implications for environmental justice and health disparities. This research analyzes recent trends […]

GCSC Seminar “Sustainability and the Corporate Self: engineers and scientists working in the mining and oil and gas industries”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB room 295 To attend online, register: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoceisrD4jGdCPqjsKBMjgS0aKULFo6msF How do engineers and applied scientists who work in the mining and oil and gas industries understand their work in relation to broader calls for greater public accountability of the corporations employing them? In this talk, Professor Smith uses in-depth ethnography to explore how the corporate context […]

GCSC Seminar: Promoting Environmentally Responsible Behavior

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB room 295 To attend online, register: https://utah.zoom.us/j/98492126188?pwd=MFhaNkZsNGNrSi93K29nbXIzWkIyUT09 Abstract: Change to address the climate crisis in socially just ways requires integrated action at both collective and individual levels. The connections between beliefs, values and behavior are complex, so promoting environmentally responsible behavior involves far more than educating people about climate change, as a wide variety of […]

GCSC Seminar: Thure Cerling “From the illegal ivory trade to nuclear waste – an improbable journey by an accidental geologist”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB 295 and on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscOurrjMpHdQY-6L81WvBK0jX8N1oKElI "From the illegal ivory trade to nuclear waste – an improbable journey by an accidental geologist" Abstract: Sometimes science questions seem to choose us. In this talk I will discuss my involvement in problems related to nuclear waste, the illegal wildlife trade, and […]