Teach-In 10am-4 pm: A series of short, 30 minute presentations from UI faculty and staff explaining climate change and other environmental challenges. Featuring speakers from Anthropology, Public Health, Biology, UI Libraries, IIHR, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences 10:00 am - Manure Matters, Chris Jones, IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering 10:30 am - The Tree of Life: What We Know And Why It Matters, John Logsdon, Biology 11

The Sustainability Charter Committee is organizing a Climate Change Literacy Teach-In, to be held on Earth Day, April 22, on campus. Professor Jerry Schnoor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, will provide a keynote address.

 

Earth Day Climate Change Teach-in Schedule

  

10am-4pm:

 Virtual: uiowa.zoom.us/j/96174108064
A series of short, 30 minute presentations from UI faculty and staff explaining climate change and other environmental challenges.  Featuring speakers from Anthropology, Public Health, Biology, UI Libraries, IIHR, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
10:00 Manure Matters Chris Jones, IIHR -Hydroscience and Engineering
10:30 The tree of life: what we know and why it matters John Logsdon, Biology 
11:00 Climate Science & Policy: Navigating the Flood of Information Laurie Neuerburg & Brett Cloyd, Libraries
11:30 Mitigating Climate Change is the Greatest Health Opportunity of our Century Peter Thorne, Public Health
12:00 What does climate change mean for our water resources? Dave Cwiertny, Civil & Environmental Engineering
12:30 Climate Quiz: A Fun Interactive Quiz to Test and Expand Your Climate Knowledge Charlie Stanier, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering 
1:00 What your bathtub (yes, I said bathtub!) can teach you about climate change Michelle Scherer, Civil & Environmental Engineering
1:30 Lessons from the past: using archaeology to examine key human-environmental relationships Matt Hill, Anthropology 
2:00 Nearly 40 years of Iowa renewable and sustainable energy policy: the nation’s first renewable energy mandate was passed in 1983 in Iowa David Osterberg, Occupational and Environmental Health
2:30 Health Benefits of a Healthy Landscape Campus Dave Brown, UI Landscape Services 
3:00 How did CO2 get locked up in fossils in the first place? Erin Irish, Biology
3:30 The status of the Paris agreement in 2021 Silvia Secchi, Geographical and Sustainability Sciences 

4pm-5pm: Keynote Address
Imagine Earth Day 2070
Jerry Schnoor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

On Demand Events:
Scavenger Hunt organized by UIBio, the Biology Department’s undergraduate student organization Bingo cards on Club's Instagram
Dance thaw | phase
recorded performance of UI Dance students
 

(See at events.uiowa.edu)

You may also enjoy this #ThrowbackThursday-worthy schedule of events from the first such Teach-In, 51 years ago, on our campus. Feel free to also peruse the April 22, 1970 Daily Iowan Earth Day edition.

ENVIRONMENTAL TEACH-IN Campus Ministers, students, faculty and staff have combined efforts in support of an environmental teach-in to be held the week of April 20. According to Constance Heneke of Living Iowans for a Healthy Environment, the goals of the teach-in are to educate the population on problems the nation is facing, to stimulate action to improve our environment, and to provide an overview of the complexities of problems in our environment and the need for American cooperation. T

 

 

 

 

 

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