faculty profiles8
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Jully Merino Carela: Making the Energy Sector More Inclusive and Welcoming for Women
The Women in Energy program director explains how she and her team have been advocating for more women’s leadership in a male-dominated industry.
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Paige West Works to Uplift Indigenous Voices and Traditions in Papua New Guinea
Her work supporting Indigenous sovereignty over biodiversity was recently recognized by the Explorer Club on its list of 50 people who are changing the world.
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Jacqueline Austermann: Exploring the Deep Earth, Modeling Future Sea Level
She studies Earth’s past warm periods to try to understand the future, and was just named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow.
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Q&A With Gloriose Nsengiyumva, Who Puts Climate Adaptation Into Action
Seasonal climate forecasts can help farmers stave off poverty and hunger. Nsengiyumva helps farmers in Africa interpret those forecasts.
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Lisa Ilboudo Nébié: Studying Food Security, Environmental Changes and Migration in West Africa
She studies how environmental changes impact communities around the world, and how communities adapt.
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Mapping the Most Mysterious Planet of All: Earth
For her work toward charting the global ocean floor, scientist Vicki Ferrini has been named by the Explorer Club as one of 50 people changing the world.
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Ryan Abernathey: Helping to Open a Universe of Data to the World
The Lamont-Doherty physical oceanographer was recently awarded early career honors from the Oceanography Society.
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New Class on Sustainability and Racial Justice in 21st Century Detroit
In Spring 2021, the Sustainability Management program is offering a new course on Building Resilience in 21st Century Detroit.
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Leaning Into Uncertainty: A Life of Anticipating the Worst-Case Scenario
Since his time as a theater major in college, disaster preparedness expert Jeffrey Schlegelmilch has known the importance of improvising and having backup plans.
