Events & Media
News
Professor Barnes presents on "Cities & Suburbia: How People Influence Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling"
Professor Barnes presents at Lafayette College on
"Cities & Suburbia: How People Influence Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling"
The percent of the population dwelling in urban and suburban areas in the US has increased over the last 200 years, from 10% to close to 80%. Given that the majority of humans live in these environments, urban ecosystems have a greater impact on regional and global systems as compared to a similarly sized undisturbed ecosystem. Watersheds effectively integrate physical, biological, chemical and anthropogenic processes; thus the geochemistry of rivers provides a signal of landscape function and health. By sampling watersheds across a gradient of urbanization the relative importance of human inputs and microbial processing (e.g. removal and transformations) on nitrogen and carbon exports from different landscapes can be determined.
Rebecca Barnes is currently a visiting Assistant Professor at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. She obtained her M.P.A. in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management at Indiana University and Ph.D. at Yale’s Environment School. She was most recently an NSF postdoctoral Fellow at the USGS in Boulder, CO.
Rebecca Barnes is currently a visiting Assistant Professor at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. She obtained her M.P.A. in Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management at Indiana University and Ph.D. at Yale’s Environment School. She was most recently an NSF postdoctoral Fellow at the USGS in Boulder, CO.
https://calendar.lafayette.edu/node/4089
02-09-2012
This event was last updated on 02-09-2012
Meet Our Faculty
Gautam Sethi teaches environmental and natural resource economics at Bard CEP. His research includes institutional mechanisms to improve water quality in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the impact of wind farms on residential property values in the U.S.
“What I value most about Bard CEP is its ability to challenge and reshape one’s views. I am constantly challenged, by my colleagues and students, to think of the world in ways I had not hitherto, and I hope to have a similar effect on their worldview.”—Gautam Sethi, Associate Professor, Bard CEP
Monique Segarra, assistant professor of politics, teaches environmental policy analysis and climate politics. Her research focuses on the intersection of natural resource management, climate change, and human rights in the global south and the politics of water reform in Oaxaca, Mexico.
“Working with graduate students at CEP has enriched my work as a political scientist. The interdisciplinary nature of the program deepens our students’ ability to analyze and think about the policy process and how the key driver of our time, climate change and adaptation, is shaping our future policy choices.”
“Working with graduate students at CEP has enriched my work as a political scientist. The interdisciplinary nature of the program deepens our students’ ability to analyze and think about the policy process and how the key driver of our time, climate change and adaptation, is shaping our future policy choices.”
