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#EESPublishes: Prof #TomAngotti of @HunterUAP & @GC_CUNY on #LatinAmerican #CityPlanning

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Professor Tom Angotti recently first authored an article in Latin American Perspectives entitled in Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices”.    Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development. His recent books include The New Century of the Metropolis, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the Davidoff Book Award, andAccidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths. He is co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives and …

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#EESPublishes: Prof. #TeresaBandosz published 4 new articles!

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Professor Teresa Bandosz of City College is the coauthored of  FOUR  new articles in .  Check them out!   Electrochemical Reduction of Oxygen on Hydrophobic Ultramicroporous polyHIPEs Carbon, Alterations of S-doped porous carbon-rGO composites surface features upon CO2 adsorption at ambient conditions, Effect of Ag containing (nano)particles on reactive adsorption of mustard gas surrogate on iron oxyhydroxide/graphite oxide composites under visible light irradiation, and Carbon dots as fluorescent sensor for detection of explosive nitrocompounds  

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#EESPublishes: Prof #NirKrakauer on 2015 #drought records in @earthzine

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Professor Nir Krakauer of City College co-authored an article in Earthzine entitled; A New Kind of Drought: U.S. Record Low Windiness in 2015. Abstract: Vast swaths of the United States witnessed an unprecedented drop in windiness during the first half of 2015. This “wind drought” eclipses any previous event since 1979, in terms of both geographic extent and longevity, and affected states from Washington to Florida. Reanalysis data indicate that California, Oregon, Texas, and Washington reported their lowest recorded wind speeds in more than 30 years. Wind power generation plummeted as result, and since wind power now accounts for approximately …

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.@MuseumofCityNY #BookClub on 5/12: #Gowanus, Bklyn’s Curious Canal. Get free tix here!

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Use code MCB1 for discounted tickets or even better comment on this post, the facebook post, or retweet for free tickets! In Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal (NYU Press, 2015), author Joseph Alexiou traces the canal’s history through the Revolutionary War, several waves of immigrants, its frenzied rise as one of America’s paramount industrial centers, and the widespread environmental degradation that followed.  Join us for a conversation about how gentrification is again transforming this dynamic urban landscape and toxic waste site into a reinvigorated center of post-industrial chic. Reception and book signing to follow!    TICKETS Free for Museum members; Use code $MCB1 for discount tickets! Or comment/retweet …

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Urban Research Book Series Launch by @TerreformUR

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  UR is a book series that aims to promote the urban discourse in the broadest sense, ranging from the social to the environmental to the theoretical to the speculative to the formal – including comprehensive publications of “real” projects. Our ambition is to produce volumes on the basis of their intrinsic interest and at the level of visual quality they demand. Many more exciting, deep, and visionary, titles are in store and we are committed to expanding this project to embrace a very wide range of topics and contributors.   UR01: Gowntown: A 197X Plan for Upper Manhattan By …

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Summer School in Area Studies in Africa Application due 5/31

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Call for Applications: 2nd CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa Deadline: 31 May 2016 Dakar, 22 to 27 August 2016 Interdisciplinarity in Area Studies: Basic and Applied Research The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB) call for applications for the 2nd CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa. The Summer School sets out to stimulate and consolidate interdisciplinary approaches in research on Africa, but also on other regions of the world undertaken from within the African continent. It …

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Share your story of #StreetHarassment

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Click here to participate in an important quick survey on experiences of harassment, wellbeing, and safety in public places. The findings from the survey will be used to help shape policy to improve safety in public space.   This survey comes from Gender Inc which is partnered with Hunter Urban Policy and Planning. The Gender Inclusive Planning studio (GenderInc) envisions a more just city where LGBTQ people of all races and cultures experience safety in mind and body in public spaces. We believe that policy and design interventions focused on the urgent need for ending violence against and harassment of …

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Fall 2016 Course Information

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This page will be updated as more syllabi are made available EES 79903 Biosphere-Atmospheric Interactions EES 79903 Clay Minerals and Nanoparticles EES 79903 Past Climate Change: Looking Back to our Future EES 79903 International Human Settlements and Climate Justice EES 79903 Critical Child and Youth Studies EES 79904 Water Resources, Hydrology, and GISc Analysis EES 79903 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science EES 79903 Raster Analysis EES 79904 Environmental Modeling and Spatial Analysis with GISc EES 79903 Environmental Geophysics EES 79904 Ecology and Political Theory EAS 31136/B9036 Statistics in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (sample syllabus) EES 79903 or 79904 Soils in the Environment …

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