Title: Peromyscus Ecology: A Story of Two Similar yet Different Species.

Deer Mice (Genus Peromyscus) are essential components of forested ecosystems, playing key roles as prey for…

Professor Jennifer Tank is the Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla Professor of Biological Sciences and…

The Sustainability Expo (previously titled Undergraduate Sustainability Research & Education Expo) has been expanded to provide all students (undergraduate and graduate) with information and valuable resources about professional development opportunities in the…

Nessa Cronin, Lecturer in Irish Studies and Associate Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NUI Galway, will speak on "Climate Crisis and Irish Environmentalities in the Capitalocene."

Dr. Cronin will bring the Irish experience to bear on the current climate-change debate. She will focus on the need and implications for a new dialogue, a new vocabulary, and new ways of being in this “age of the 6th extinction.”

Summary

Christopher Thompson

Laudato Si’ called the Catholic community to an ecological conversion, a reorientation of our habits of mind toward a…

Kimberly Van Meter, Assistant Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Signatures of Human Impact: Land Use, Legacies and Long-Term…

Title: Nothing to Fear: Environmental Change in the Absence of Large Carnivores.

While often treated as more of an aesthetic or ethical issue, widespread reductions or eradications of large…

Welcome to the Anthropocene. For the first time, fossil fuel-burning humans have become the prime drivers of the planetary climate. We have left behind the relatively stable pattern of natural variability that governed the environment in the Holocene epoch, beginning some 11,700 years ago. How do…

Title: The Nature Conservancy's Aquatic Invasive Species Program, Science Informing Management.

The Laurentian Great Lakes are one of the most heavily invaded freshwater…

The Center for Informatics and Computational Science invites you to attend Jeffrey Shaman’s seminar entitled, “Forecasting the Growth and Spread of Infectious…

Patrick Regan is a professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and the Associate Director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative for ND-GAIN,…

Title: Household Preferences for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan in Florida.

Abstract: Accumulating evidence indicates that global sea levels have been rising at an accelerating rate. This trend,…

This workshop will bring together experts and researchers across a set of interdisciplinary fields to discuss the state of the art in assessing…

Paul Kempf is the Senior Director of Utilities and Maintenance at the University of Notre Dame, and as part of the University’s comprehensive sustainability strategy, serves…

This workshop will bring together experts and researchers across a set of interdisciplinary fields to discuss the state of the art in assessing…

On Monday, April 8, 2019, at 4pm, Dr. Linda Prokopy will give a talk in 312 DeBartolo Hall, as part of the GLOBES Scholar Series of Talks Intersecting Environment and Society.

“Moving the Needle on Adoption of Conservation Practices in Midwestern Agriculture: Land…

Paul Greenberg is the James Beard award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller and Notable Book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food…

Title: Radar Aero-ecology: Monitoring Aerial Wildlife in a Changing World

Rapid anthropogenic environmental…

Dr A. Atiq Rahman is a global leader in the fields of sustainable development, environment, poverty and climate change. In 2008 he received the UN ‘Champion of the Earth’ award for his distinguished leadership in global environmental issues. As one of the lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel…

 

Title: Weather, Conflict and Crime in India

Title: Temperature Sensitivity of Ecosystem Carbon Flux

Title:  Assured Information Distillation in Social Sensing

 

Join the Environmental Change Initiative on Thursday May 2 for their first Science at Sunset for 2019.  Michael Cramer will be presenting a lecture titled: The Deer Mouse: Portrait of a Misunderstood Mammal

Come join ND-LEEF to learn about the natural history of bald eagles, their recent comeback and how they became one of our national symbols. Following the presentation, spotting scopes and binoculars…

Summary

Lisa Sideris

Discourse on the relationship between science and religion frequently invokes the language of wonder, and Anthropocene discourse is no exception.…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join the Environmental Change Initiative on Thursday June 13  for their first Science at Sunset for 2019.  Phil Stepanian will be presenting a lecture titled: Cloudy with a chance of migration: Using weather radar to track the incredible flights of birds, bats, and bugs

Title:  Natural hazards and internal migration in Bangladesh:  The role of transient versus permanent shocks.

Abstract:  We examined whether floods and cyclones, which can be considered as transient…

The Sustainability Expo has been moved to the fall!

This new time frame allows us to align the event with…

“Research Uncorked” is a monthly speaker series at Ironhand co-hosted with Notre Dame and featuring casual talks by leading scholars and scientists from the university. In September, we’re pleased to welcome Jennifer Tank, Galla Professor of Biological

Sciences and director of the Notre Dame…

Title: Turbulence and hurricanes:  Using simulations to look where experiments can't.

Abstract:  In the environment, air and water transport a wide variety of constituents,…