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
![Nimbus poster of performers in grassy costumes](/sites/sustainabilitycommittee.uiowa.edu/files/styles/large/public/2020-03/nimbusdance2%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=5J8ttOiJ)
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.
![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](/sites/sustainabilitycommittee.uiowa.edu/files/2020-02/1970.04.17_1.jpg)