Climate change
To mark Earth Day on Wednesday 22 April, our colleague Emily Shuckburgh will give the first virtual Turing Lecture on sustainability and the climate crisis. Emily is Reader in Environmental Data Science here and Director of Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge. She is a mathematician and climate scientist and a Fellow of Darwin…
March 2020: The spread of emerging infectious disease can be amplified by climate change and habitat loss. Environmental change is altering human-wildlife interactions which can accelerate the spread and intensity of disease outbreaks. It is recommended to treat disease outbreaks as symptoms of environmental degradation instead of isolated incidents.
A faculty member here is part of a taskforce advising conference organisers on how to move their events from the real to the virtual world Last month, Professor Srinivasan Keshav, Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science, was asked to be part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Presidential Task Force on Virtual Meetings….
Last event of annual showcase reveals society far slower adapting to climate change than to coronavirus
Thursday, March 12, 2020 “Cambridge University is an amazing cauldron of very talented people.” So says Dr Maria Russo, who is a Research Associate in our Centre for Atmospheric Science, where she studies the physical and chemical processes at work in the atmosphere. Here, she tells us about the links between climate and air pollution, the…