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 Literacy Teach-in Schedule |
Senate Chamber, Old Capitol | |
| 9:30 | Jerry Schnoor | 50 Years Since Earth Day: A Climate Emergency |
| 10:10 | Michael Welsh | Announcing Climate Change Competition Open To Students, Staff And Faculty |
| 10: 20-11:20 | Barbara Eckstein | UN 75th-Anniversary Global Conversations about the Future: Climate Change |
| Peter Thorne | Climate Change Impacts on Public Health | |
| Jeff Dorale | Lessons from a Geologist | |
| 11:20-12:20 | David Osterberg | I Get $1000 Off My State Income Tax If I Install Solar Panels. Really? |
| Laurie Neuerburg | Climate Science & Policy: Navigating the Flood of Information | |
| Brett Cloyd | ||
| Michele Scherer | What Do Climate Change and a Bathtub Have in Common? | |
| Dave Cwiertny | ||
| 12:20-1:20 | Allexis Mahanna | LENA Project: Sustainability & Kids |
| Autumn Moen | ||
| Charlie Stanier | Climate Science -- Learn How To Better Explain the Greenhouse Effect | |
| Matt Hill | Lessons From The Past: An Archeologist’s View of Humans in a Changing World | |
| 1:20-2:20 | Chris Jones | The Perfect Storm: Climate Change Meets Iowa Stream Nitrate |
| Alyssa Clayden | How Climate Change Is Impacting International Migration | |
| John Logsdon | Biodiversity: What We Know & Why It Matters | |
| 2:20-3:20 | Connie Mutel | Landscape Changes and Climate Change |
| Erin Irish | The Big Co2 Sequestration: 100 Million Years of Rot-Free Wood Formation | |
| CSTS/Riley Troyer | Theories of Science Communication: How Failure Leads to Misconceptions and Poor Policy | |
| 3:20-4:20 | Silvia Secchi | The Paris Climate Accord: An Update |
| Caitlin Owens | Climate Change And Mental Health: Strategies for Self-Care | |
| Brittany Greenbaum | ||
| AICHE | Climate Change Game Shows | |
In conjunction with teach-in and collaboration with The Center for New Music, the Sustainability Charter Committee announces the following events:
Nimbus Dance
Samuel Pott, Artistic Director
and the
Center for New Music Ensemble
performing music by Qasim Naqvi in
Patch of Turf & Falling Sky (see video)
in two performances in Stark Opera Studio
on April 22, 2020 at 4:30pm and 7:30pm.
and
THAW | PHASE
a live performance created and performed by MFA in Dance Graduate Students
Angelica DeLashmette-Hurst, Juliet Remmers, and Mariko Ishikawa
in a performance in the Atrium outside the Stark Opera Studio
on April 22, 2020 at 6:00pm.
with Professor Jerry Schnoor "book-ending" Earth day by addressing the Stark audience following the evening performance.
(See at events.uiowa.edu)
You may also enjoy this #ThrowbackThursday-worthy schedule of events from the first such Teach-In, 50 years ago, on our campus. Feel free to also peruse the April 22, 1970 Daily Iowan Earth Day edition.
