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#EESPublishes: Prof Bandosz of @GC_CUNY & @CityCollegeNY on Metal-Free Heterogeneous #Nanoporous C for CO2 #electrochemical Reduction
Professor Teresa J. Bandosz of the GC and City College co-authored an abstract for the ECS meeting entitled Metal-Free Heterogeneous Nanoporous Carbon for CO2 electrochemical Reduction to CO and CH4 in Aqueous Solution. Abstract: Recently, the electrochemical conversion of CO2 has gained a significant attention. It provides a poteAbstracntial solution for minimizing the CO2 concentration level in the environment and also offers an alternative way to convert it to renewable fuels. Various metals (Ag, Au, Cu, etc.) and metal complexes are used as heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 reduction. However, the limitations in their application are in the fact that many polycrystalline metals show a low …
Fall 2016 #GEOS Schedule #EESpresents #Colloquium
Click here for the Fall 2016 Colloquium Schedule! September September 22, 2016 BRIANNE SMITH – Brooklyn College, Earth & Environmental Science “Flash Flooding in Urban Watersheds: from Baltimore to New York City.” September 29, 2016 JIMMY BOOTH – City College of New York – Earth and Atmospheric Sciences “Storm Association in the Northeast US: Characteristic Pathways for Storms Causing Wind, Surge, and/or Rainfall Extremes for the Period from 1979-2014.” October October 13, 2016 ALLAN FREI – Hunter College – Geography Room TBD “Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee: How Unique Were They in the Catskill Mountains?” October 20, 2016 BENJAMIN BLACK …
#EESPublishes: #NewBookAlert! Prof #MonicaVarsanyi of @CUNY_GC @JohnJayCollege on #Policing #Immigrants @UChicagoPress
Professor Monica W. Varsanyi of John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY EES is a coauthor of a new book entitled: Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines. Abstract: The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that …
Spring 2016 EES @GC_CUNY classroom assignments
#EESPublishes: Dr#HannesBrueckner of @GC_CUNY @QC_News @LamontEarth on #TvaerdalComplex & #Baltica #SmNd #Zircon
Professor Hannes Brueckner of CUNY GC EES, Queens College and LDEO first authored an article in the Journal of Geology entitled: An Orphaned Baltic Terrane in the Greenland Caledonides: A Sm-Nd and Detrital Zircon Study of a High-Pressure/Ultrahigh-Pressure Complex in Liverpool Land. Abstract: Liverpool Land, at the southern tip of the Greenland Caledonides, exposes a composite metamorphic terrane: the midcrustal granulite-facies Jaettedal Complex tectonically juxtaposed against the eclogite-facies, peridotite-bearing Tvaerdal Complex. The Jaettedal Complex is a Laurentian terrane, whereas the Tvaerdal Complex was proposed by earlier investigators to be a Baltic terrane. PT estimates (880°–920°C at 35–40 kbar) and Sm-Nd mineral …
#EESPublishes: #NewBookAlert! Prof @sethalow of @GC_CUNY on #Ethnography of #Space&#Place
Professor Setha Low has published a new book entitled Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place. This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low draws on over twenty years of research to examine social production, social construction, embodied, discursive, emotive and affective, as well as translocal approaches. A global range of fieldwork …
#EESPublishes: PhD student #HarryMaischIV of @GC_CUNY & @BklynCollege411 on #Eocene #Alabama #BonyFish @GCSCIENCES #PalArch
EES student Harry Maisch IV first authored a paper entitled: Osteichthyans from the Tallahatta–Lisbon Formation Contact (middle Eocene–Lutetian) Pigeon Creek, Conecuh-Covington Counties, Alabama with Comments on Transatlantic Occurrences in the Northern Atlantic Ocean Basin in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. Abstract: A disconformity and lag deposit that separates the Tallahatta and Lisbon Formations along Pigeon Creek near Red Level, Conecuh-Covington Counties, Alabama contains osteichthyan remains belonging to: Pycnodus sp.;Lepisosteus sp.; Albula sp.; Egertonia isodonta Cocchi, 1864; Cylindracanthusrectus Agassiz, 1843; Sphyraena sp.; Triciurides cf. T. sagittidens Winkler, 1874; Scomberomorus sp.; Ariidae gen. indet.; Ostraciidae gen. indet., and cf. Beryciformes. This fossil osteichthyan assemblage …
#EESPublishes: Prof #SharonZukin of @GC_CUNY & @BklynCollege411 on #Gentrification in Three #Paradoxes @ASAnews
Professor Sharon Zukin of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center published a new article entitled Gentrification in Three Paradoxes (Unanticipated, Unimportant and Uneventful) in City and Community.
#EESPublishes: New book by Profs @KGouldA & @TammyL_Lewis of @BKLYNCollege411& @GC_CUNY on #GreenGrentrification #UrbanSustainability & #EnvironmentalJustice
Professors Gould and Lewis published a new book entitled: Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series). Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban “greening” from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out …
