Professor Cecilia McHugh will join the United States Advisory Committee for Scientific Ocean Drilling beginning on October 1, 2020. The 3-year appointment requires reviews of Workshops, Nominations,and Pre-Drilling Activities for the US science community. Congratulations Prof.McHugh! You can find more information about Prof.McHugh and her work here.
Idil Onen, Geography Student, has been awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellowship
First-year Geography student, Idil Onen, has been awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellowship to support her project, “A Tale of Two Cities: Sur Before and After”. This project aims to analyze the urban transformation that has taken place in Diyarbakir, Turkey over the past decade, and to examine the effects of the process of urban regeneration and displacement on the residents and contest the state discourse from the perspective of the residents’ experience. Congratulations Idil! We Look forward to your work.
Prof. Diane Greenfield’s work in coastal and marine environments of Long Island South is featured on the GC
Dr. Dianne Greenfield* (QC-ASRC) and her research are featured prominently on the GC website right now: “A Novel ‘Human Experiment’; Professor Dianne Greenfield studies how the COVID-19 shutdown has affected the waters of the Long Island Sound.” Their effort is part of a year-long study, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant of close to $200,000, of how stay-at-home orders and the unprecedented decline in commuting and travel in the New York City metropolitan area affected the waters of Long Island Sound. Specifically, the researchers are looking at how the drop in travel — by …
Recent Alumni Dr.Aaron Davitt joins Watttime
Recent graduate, Dr. Aaron Davitt (advisor: Dr. Kyle McDonald, CCNY) has taken a position with WattTime, a non-profit organization that promotes clean energy choices. He’ll be working as part of a group that is developing tools to track greenhouse gas emissions globally. [lightbox link=”#”][/lightbox] Congrats, Aaron, on your new position and this crucial work!
EES Publishes; Dr.James Biles on “A Multi-scale Analysis of Urban Warming in Residential Areas of a Latin American City: The Case of Mérida, Mexico”
Dr. James Biles of EES and CCNY has just published an article with colleague Dave Lemberg (Western Michigan University): “A Multi-scale Analysis of Urban Warming in Residential Areas of a Latin American City: The Case of Mérida, Mexico” in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. This study represents a novel attempt to analyze the relationship between Latin American city structure and residential-scale ambient temperatures. Using statistical analysis, we assess the relationship between the type of residential zone, vegetation coverage, and housing and lot characteristics and ambient temperatures in residential areas of a large, subtropical city. We find lower temperatures …
EES Publishes: Prof. Monica Varsanyi’s new book chapter in “Paper Trails:Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity”
Prof. Monica Varsanyi (GC/John Jay) has just published a book chapter with her co-author, Dr. Marie Provine (Arizona State): “Documenting membership: The divergent politics of migrant driver’s licenses in New Mexico and Arizona,” in a book volume edited by Joe Heyman and Sarah Horton, Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity (Duke University Press, 2020). Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict non-citizens’ rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and provisional legal statuses …
EES Publishes: Prof. Dr. Nerve Macaspac (CSI) and Dr. George Andreopolous (John Jay) and Efim Galkin: “Whole-of-Nation” approach to counterinsurgency and the closing of civic space in the Philippines”
EES doctoral faculty, Dr. Nerve Macaspac (CSI) has just published an article with co-authors, Dr. George Andreopolous (John Jay) and Efim Galkin: “Whole-of-Nation” approach to counterinsurgency and the closing of civic space in the Philippines,” Global-E 13(54). Article Abstract: This article focuses on the shrinkage of the democratic and civil society space in the Philippines. Specifically, it provides an analysis of the national security situation as shaped by the long-standing counterinsurgency strategy in the country, and the resulting patterns of human rights violations, intimidation, persecution of, or violence against civil society actors. Due to space limitations, it addresses only three …
EES Publishes: “The limits of lead (Pb) phytoextraction and possibilities of phytostabilization in contaminated soil” by Sara Perl Egendorf
EES student, Sara Perl Egendorf (advisors: Joshua Cheng, Brooklyn and Peter Groffman, Brooklyn College and ASRC), alongside Peter, Joshua, and Gerry Moore, just published one of her dissertation chapters: “The limits of lead (Pb) phytoextraction and possibilities of phytostabilization in contaminated soil: a critical review. In the International Journal of Phytoremediation. “This review article focuses on lead (Pb), one of the most ubiquitous and harmful toxicants found in soil. Our objective is to address misconceptions regarding the ability of plants to uptake Pb through their roots and translocate it to above-ground tissues, and their ability to act as hyperaccumulators and …
Covid and Cages: GC Researchers Map How Prisoners Responded to the Pandemic
EES student and GC Digital Fellow, Olivia Ildefonso and EES Alum, Celeste Winston, now an assistant professor at Temple University, are featured on the GC website for their recent research that visualizes data about prison releases related to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the “COVID-19 and Cages Mapping Project”. The incarcerated are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, and scholars interested in social justice see this as a convergence of two public-health issues — both the illness itself and the crisis represented by the United States’ prison population, which is the highest in the world. “My inspiration around this project …
EES student Corey Scher’s work with “Mask Watch” featured in Rolling Stone Magazine
EES student, Corey Scher (advisor: Kyle McDonald, CC) has been an active member of the group, Mask Watch, which documents the NYPD’s compliance (or non-compliance) with wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. His work with Mask Watch was recently highlighted in Rolling Stone Magazine. “… a group of activists started @NYPDMaskWatch back in June to highlight police officers “actively refusing to even follow the barest and most basic protocols to protect public health and safety,” group member Corey Scher tells /Rolling Stone./Scher says the account receives a few dozen complaints a day of NYPD officers not wearing masks, …
