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Meet Jack Baker as he describes his path to professorship and the bumps he encountered along the way. Jack is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
The “How I Got Here” video series features Doerr School of Sustainability faculty members who share the challenges, insights, setbacks, and success throughout their career journeys.
How I Got Here: A Career Chat with Jack Baker
Meet Jack Baker as he describes his path to professorship and the bumps he encountered along the way. Jack is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
The “How I Got Here” video series features Doerr School of Sustainability faculty members who share the challenges, insights, setbacks, and success throughout their career journeys.
In the latest Earth Matters newsletter: 🐋 Trawling in a whale supergroup 🌲 Mapping California's "zombie forests" 👁🗨 Protecting wetlands 🌊 Oil spills & coastal resistance with Stanford Alumni Josheena Naggea and Rebecca Miller Read here & subscribe: https://bit.ly/EMFeb2023
In the latest Earth Matters newsletter: 🌧 California’s whiplash weather 🔋 How solid electrolytes in lithium batteries fail 🥩 Rethinking fake meat with environmental scientist David Lobell 🌎 Reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius within 10-15 years & more! Read here & subscribe: https://bit.ly/EMJan23
Elliott White Jr. answers the internet’s questions on climate change
Is climate change getting better? Will it end the world? Does it cause natural disasters?
Elliott White Jr., assistant professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, takes on a random sampling of the web's most searched questions on climate change.
The climate-smart practice of planting off-season cover crops reduces corn and soybean yields, a new study finds. These sobering findings highlight the need to better implement the practice. https://stanford.io/3UtBYxf
Opening Day at Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability opens its doors today.
The creation of this new school represents the most recent evolution of how Stanford University approaches research and teaching related to the Earth – this time in response to sustainability challenges that aren’t new but increasingly urgent.
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Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising pattern in how life reemerges from cataclysm.
Earth Day 2021: Mark Jacobson
Researchers propose three ways to avoid blackouts while reducing cost per unit of energy – including the cost in terms of health, climate and energy. This #EarthDay2021 we share how Stanford is working to decarbonize and #RestoreOurEarth. https://news.stanford.edu/press/view/18844
Earth Day 2021: Sally Benson
Many companies around the world have committed to use “100 percent renewable energy,” but that does not mean “100 percent carbon-free energy.” This #EarthDay2021 we share how Stanford is working to decarbonize and #RestoreOurEarth. http://bit.ly/renewable-carbon
Earth Day 2021: Decarbonization Package
This #EarthDay2021 we share how Stanford is working to #RestoreOurEarth. Head to our online magazine, Stanford Earth Matters, for a selection of stories on the science behind decarbonization. #EarthDay https://stanford.io/3efw1Ap
Sarah Cooley Uses NASA Satellite to Measure Human Impact in Water Storage
“Humans have a dominant effect on Earth’s water cycle,” says
Sarah Cooley this #WorldWaterDay. Learn how she and others have used satellites to provide the first global accounting of fluctuations in lake and reservoir water levels. NASA EarthEarth https://stanford.io/3qgHfsj
Sarah Cooley Uses NASA Satellite to Measure Human Impact in Water Storage
To investigate humans’ impact on freshwater resources, scientists have now conducted the first global accounting of fluctuating water levels in Earth’s lakes and reservoirs – including ones previously too small to measure from space. Scientists used these height measurements to study 227,386 water bodies over 22 months and discovered that, from season to season, the water level in Earth’s lakes and ponds fluctuate on average by about 8.6 inches (0.22 m). At the same time, the water level of human-managed reservoirs fluctuate on average by nearly quadruple that amount – about 34 inches (0.86 m).
For further reading: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
Music: "Cycle of the Moon," "Domestic Idyll," Universal Production Music
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA): Producer, Editor
Sarah Cooley (Stanford University): Scientist
Trent Schindler (USRA): Visualizer
Marshall Burke on the cost of flooding
Intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States over the past three decades, totaling almost $75 billion of the estimated $199 billion in flood damages from 1988 to 2017. http://stanford.io/2LrnhMW
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The O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm is where Stanford and the community join together with each other and the planet. #Thanksgiving https://youtu.be/iy1gtpjOCdU