Aerosols can move around the globe - affecting our climate and our weather but how do they affect human health? Kim Prather, PhD explores how her work transfers the complexity of the ocean's atmosphere into the lab to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic. [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36060]

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Interconnected: Our Oceans Your Lungs and the Air You Breathe

Human health is affected by environmental change. Those impacts are distributed unequally within and between populations and the disparity between those most responsible and those most affected by change. Dr. Thomas Newman describes how you can reduce your own environmental footprint by conserving energy, reducing travel, eating less meat, and offsetting carbon. But individual change alone will not be enough as greater change is necessary. Newman is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Pediatrics at UCSF and the Chair of San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility Environmental Health Committee. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 35919]

The Health Emergency of our Changing Climate

Throughout the US and around the world, extreme heat is on the rise. Its a trend that many of us have perceived even in our own lifetimeswe talk about how heat waves have gotten hotter, less bearable. Kristina Dahl, PhD Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, explains that extreme heat already presents serious dangers to our health and livelihoods. She looks at data and talks about the future. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 35980]

Killer Heat in the United States

With a rapid shift of policy attention to the virus and economic recovery, how will the energy system change? And what will happen to climate emissions and policy? Speakers: Michael Davidson and David Victor Series: "Global Impacts of COVID-19 - A GPS Webinar Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 35871]

Energy and the Climate - COVID-19 Global Impacts

This webinar focuses on what transportation solutions are available to combat these trying times. Panelists discuss what strategies states, cities, transit agencies, TNCs and others are taking to address COVID-19. The session begins by introducing some insights into suspected changes in travel behavior, and continues with a discussion about how we can plan for a future that will enable climate resilient and equitable communities. [Show ID: 35944]

How will COVID-19 Change the Direction of the 3 Revolutions?

There are lots of decisions to be made after being accepted at a university - including figuring out where to live. How do you apply for campus housing and what stipulations are in housing contracts? How do housing costs break down? Is living on campus right for you? Edwin Valderrama from EAOP at UC San Diego breaks down the application process, meal plans, financial details, and more. Series: "STEAM Channel" [Show ID: 35935]

You Got Into College! Now What? Part 2: Housing

How Zebrafish help in the search to produce blood stem cells, California's Alpha Clinics, the extraordinary UC Natural Reserve system, and developing an innovative crowd-sourced network of remote sensors to track change in the ocean - on surfboards. Series: "On Beyond" [Show ID: 35686]

On Beyond: Fighting Leukemia Natural Reserves Studying Climate Change Through Surfing

In the fight against climate change, those with the least resources have been left behind. In the case of solar power, the vast majority of investment in the United States has gone to majority-white communities. This means not only are people of color losing out on the benefit of solar power, but society as a whole is losing out on potential advocates for clean energy. Dan Kammen, a professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy is researching how we can reverse this trend and leapfrog toward clean energy for all. Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Show ID: 35619]

Social Justice and the Fight Against Climate Change -- Goldman Stories: Dan Kammen

How should we teach depressing material about climate change and social injustice to college students the very generation saddled with "fixing" all our problems in the current political and historical moment? Sarah Jaquette Ray, Humboldt State University, focuses on her ethnographic research and describes strategies for connecting students' emotional responses to the material in order to combat apathy and despair and to generate empowerment to effect positive change. She ends her talk by asking the audience to resist nihilism and misery in favor of feelings of hope and collective empowerment. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Show ID: 35473]

Coming of Age at the End of the World: An Existential Toolkit for the Climate Generation

After more than three decades, the public is finally beginning to grasp what a serious threat global warming poses. Whats missing from the climate conversation now is a plausible narrative about how we might parry this threat. Drawing on ideas from his recently published book, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, Robert Frank explains why our ability to tap the prodigious power of behavioral contagion may make the path forward less daunting than many think. Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Show ID: 35561]

The Psychology of Climate Change with Robert Frank

The ocean plays a major role in regulating Earth’s temperature through exchange of chemicals and microbes with the atmosphere. When waves break, ocean-derived biological species including viruses and bacteria are transferred into the atmosphere. These species can ultimately form clouds, altering precipitation and climate. Highlights will be presented of novel experiments being conducted in a unique ocean-atmosphere simulator developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE). Kimberly Prather, Professor of Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography at UC San Diego will focus on recent CAICE studies aimed at advancing our understanding of how the oceans influence human and planetary health. New insights will be discussed as well as future studies designed to unravel human versus microbial impacts on the changing Earth’s system. Series: "Exploring Ethics" [Show ID: 35000]

How Do We Know Humans are Impacting the Health of Our Planet? - Exploring Ethics

Around the world, individuals and families are fleeing their countries of origin because of war, violence, natural disasters, and climate change. As their numbers swell, host countries face calls to exclude them. Two prominent local religious leaders of especially targeted and vulnerable populations Bishop Robert McElroy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego and Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego speak about a common path forward for our society, based on the wisdom of their respective traditions. In the United States, recent political decisions and governmental policies have worsened the prospects of both those seeking to immigrate legally as well as the millions of undocumented immigrants already here or those still coming. Series: "Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society" [Show ID: 35228]

The Bishop and the Imam: A Conversation on Immigration - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society

Climate change, caused primarily by the greenhouse gas emissions of the world's most affluent populations, is having a disproportionate impact on socially and economically subordinated populations all over the world. Although climate change is anticipated to displace between 200 million and 1 billion people by 2050, the racialized hostility of the US, the European Union, and Australia to persons fleeing poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation does not bode well for climate refugees. Carmen G. Gonzalez, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, examines the relationship between climate change and racial subordination, evaluating the evolving legal and policy responses to climate change-induced displacement. Series: "DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture" [Show ID: 35345]

Climate Justice Race and Migration - DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture

Transforming our energy infrastructure to support greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals will require the deployment of technologies such as electric vehicles and energy storage. Improper integration of these technologies into the electric grid and a lack of careful planning of their scale, however, can significantly reduce their real-world effectiveness in supporting GHG emissions reduction goals. Research by Brian Tarroja and his colleagues at UC Irvine presented here focus on identifying grid integration needs and life cycle planning considerations for electric vehicles and energy storage deployment to better ensure that their potential GHG benefits are fully realized in future electricity systems. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Show ID: 35164]

Navigating the Design Space of Trajectories Toward Low/Zero-Carbon Energy Systems in California

Researchers at UC San Diego are working on cutting edge technology to combat the constant threat of wildfires in California. The WIFIRE Lab is a collaboration between the Qualcomm Institute and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The technology uses big data from cameras, weather stations, topography and other sources to quickly predict where wildfires will spread. And, it's not just theoretical. Fire departments like LAFD are actively using WIFIRE to get ahead of blazes before they get out of control. [Science] [Show ID: 35075]

WiFire: Technology to Predict and Prevent the Spread of Wildfires

Climate change is here; it's happening. Find out what that means, why scientists are so sure and what we need to do now.

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