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Switzer Fellow Climate Champions at COP21

As world leaders gather in Paris for the long-awaited COP21 climate talks, Switzer Fellows are among the leaders pushing for positive action on climate. They are serving in roles varying from country delegation members, UN representatives...
December 1, 2015
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Switzer Fellow Climate Champions at COP21

As world leaders gather in Paris for the long-awaited COP21 climate talks, Switzer Fellows are among the leaders pushing for positive action on climate. They are serving in roles varying from country delegation members, UN representatives and supporting roles with NGOs, indigenous groups and providing necessary research and data to be used in the ensuing talks, negotiations and meetings.
December 1, 2015
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COP21: What success for us all looks like in Paris

There’s a lot on the line at the climate negotiations in Paris. Fellow Heather Coleman, among others, is there, working to make sure that whatever deal is made, that it’s a fair one for us all.
November 30, 2015
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Moffitt now postdoctoral scholar with Future of Ice Initiative

We are pleased to have in residence the recipients of the inaugural Future of Ice post-doctoral fellowships below.
November 17, 2015
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Coleman receives first "Prospect Street Award" from Yale for work with climate change

Both mitigation — the efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and adaptation to existing climate changes will be on the table at the critical climate negotiations in Paris this fall. But until recently, adaptation was considered throwing in the towel, says Heather Coleman ’04 M.E.M., the Climate Change Policy Manager at Oxfam America. In that role, Coleman works on climate policy to help protect vulnerable communities from the worst effects of climate change.
November 16, 2015
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Uhl promoted to director at the Clean Air Task Force

Sarah Uhl leads CATF's team focused on minimizing emissions of potent, short-lived climate pollutants including methane and black carbon. She also serves as co-chair of the Methane Partners Campaign, which advocates for nationwide methane pollution standards for the U.S. oil and gas industry. Read more
November 13, 2015
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Luers serving in White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Amy Luers is currently serving as Assistant Director, Climate Resilience and Information, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.
November 3, 2015
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McMahan's research featured in series on climate change impacts on Gulf of Maine

Marissa McMahan spent that notoriously warm summer of 2012 lobstering with her father out of Georgetown and encountered a different visitor, a large, stout gray-and-black fish she’d never seen before. The fish, which began turning up in lobster traps up and down the coast, was the black sea bass, a succulent mid-Atlantic species normally unable to tolerate Maine’s cold sea.
November 2, 2015
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Improving the Success of Biodiversity Conservation in the Bay Area

Today is a hot day in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is 100 degrees F in Palo Alto. At the beach it is in the 80s, and about 50 miles inland it’s hitting 110. In San Francisco, it’s 90. If the fog comes in tomorrow the beach temperatures will drop into the 60s, while staying in the 100s inland. Even in one area, the difference in temperature from a southern exposed slope to a northern exposed slope could be 15 degrees or greater.
October 21, 2015
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Lowenstein says early fall color not necessarily worrying

"I spend a lot of time in the woods, and I'm not concerned that what we're seeing this year is particularly unusual," said Frank Lowenstein, deputy director of the New England Forestry Foundation. Lowenstein, who is also a member of the Environmental Studies Department at Brandeis University, said shifting climate patterns is only one part of what causes trees to change early. "We are definitely seeing weather patterns shifting in the Northeast," Lowenstein said. "We're getting more rainfall, specifically heavy rainfall."
October 5, 2015