1.5* Minute Student Climate Lectures

Join us Monday, October 14, for the 1.5* Minute Student Climate Lectures, inspired by the School of Arts & Sciences 1.5* Minute Climate Lecture series.

Student speakers:

Katherine Tsui, Wharton - Surviving Hurricane Maria: A Wake-Up Call for Climate Action

Brendan Chapko, Wharton/The College - Understanding the Damage Potential of Extratropical Winter Storms in the American Northeast

Hui Tian, PhD student in City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design - Building Resilience: Climate Change Adaptation to Urban Flooding

Andrew Luong, The College - Save All the Bees: The Case for Native Pollinators

Jonah Perelman, The College - Woodpeckers and Wildfires in a Warming World

Gabrielle Fine, Wharton - What the 2024 Election Means for our Climate

Evelyn Gordi, MES - Going Green Sells: Greenwashing and Its Impact on True Environmental Progress

Jie Ying, MES - AI and Decarbonization: Problem or Solution?

Xintong Li, The College - Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in the Green Jobs Revolution

Apsara Mitra, MES - Pale Blue Graveyard

Deepthi Rao, MES - One Health, One Planet: Exploring Interconnectedness from Within and Beyond

*1.5 degrees Celsius = The maximum amount the average temperature can rise in order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. We're already past 1.2 degrees Celsius.

Moderator

Jon Hawkings

Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

Jon Hawkings is a biogeochemist with broad expertise in the cycling of elements through the Earth system. His research centers on the role of glacial meltwater in downstream biogeochemical cycles, with a focus on how meltwater influences ecosystem structure and productivity, subglacial biogeochemical weathering, and the mobilization of nutrients and toxic elements in freshwater environments and their export to coastal ecosystems.

Jon’s research portfolio includes the study of supraglacial environments (cryoconite), ice sheet hydrology, and groundwater aquifers. He conducts extensive fieldwork in remote regions of the Arctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the tropics, with past expeditions to Svalbard, Greenland, India, Chile, and Antarctica. He is also a collaborator on the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project and has taught field skills on multiple trips to the European Alps.