Haiti-Dominican Republic border

Contextualizing Disaster and Vulnerability in Haiti

Natural disasters follow the fault lines of inequality, and Haiti is a clear example of how disaster and extreme vulnerability combine to produce catastrophe.

Read Greg Beckett's commentary on the Haitian emergency

Image of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic courtesy
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Asian carp jumping

Globalization and Invasion:
The Great Lakes Carp Threat Explained

Q & A with Reuben Keller, Henry Chandler Cowles Lecturer in Environmental Studies

Read the Q & A

Photograph by permission of Jason Lindsey.

Calumet Quarter 2009

Outside on the Southside
Undergraduates discover the complex ecology in Chicago's backyard.

This past Spring the first group of students participated in the "Calumet Quarter", PGE's intensive experience-based curriculum in environmental studies focused on the Calumet region.

Read more about the Calumet Quarter

Photo by Daneen Vol shared under a Creative Commons license.

Arctic sun photo - (cc) Daneen Vol

Tracking Climate Change by Studying Solar Radiation
NSF grant to support research on the Arctic environment

Geophysical Sciences professor John Frederick will work with undergraduate students to obtain high quality data related to solar radiation measured in Alaska and Greenland.

Read more about the project

Photo by Daneen Vol shared under a Creative Commons license.

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