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- 4SepEcology and Evolution Colloquium: Are "Alien" Plants "Bad"?Dr. Doug Tallamy will discuss his work with plants and argues introduced plants often displace native species and disrupt ecosystems. ...
- 11SepFaculty Research Lecture by Nancy Tomes/HIS, "Epidemics of Fear: Post-COVID Reflections on 'Panic' as a Public Health Problem"Nancy Tomes' new research project is a study of the changing ways that public health experts, policy makers, and media gatekeepers have conc...
- 12SepNicole Cohen: Super Vision - Artist Talk & ReceptionNICOLE COHEN: SUPER VISION features videos and photo-collages that explore perception as viewed through interior spaces and architectural en...
- 15SepEmerson Legacy Concert presents the Han-Setzer-Finckel TrioFormer Emerson String Quartet members Phil Setzer, violin, and David Finckel, cello, join with the acclaimed pianist, Wu Han in their except...
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Research Spotlight
Studying the World's Changing Climate and Polar Environment
Department of Geosciences Assistant Professor Weisen Shen recently shared results forthcoming from his team's successful deployment of a series of seismic stations around the South Pole this past austral summer. Shen and his team of graduate students employed a novel transportation system consisting of arctic trucks; the results are likely to help understand the rate of appearance of climate change impacts, such as ice sheet motion.
Through the support of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Program (NSF-OPP) season in logistic investment grant, Shen's team spent two months at the South Pole conducting this resesarch; recent results have been publicized in the 2024 Ice Core community meeting. Click here to read more