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Join us this Thursday for the Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn!

This week’s ENVS Lunch & Learn is with Avery Cohn, Assistant Professor of Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts, who will speak about trends showing substantial increase in warming as a result of tropical agricultural deforestation. More info here.

COHN

Description of the Presentation: Tropical deforestation can substantially increase nearby air temperature by reducing evaporative cooling. But, because recent tropical forest loss has been concentrated in recently-settled regions with low weather station density, forest loss-driven biophysical warming has likely gone systematically under-detected in temperature records. I’ll present results of research in my group analyzing satellite data to demonstrate that in many locations across the tropics, forests lost from 2000-2013 caused warming that exceeded the warming predicted from global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. I’ll close on a hopeful note—discussing how the finding might encourage farmers to protect nearby forests.


Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center, Medford Campus
12 pm – 1 pm. Lunch Provided!
Join us for this weekly, TIE-sponsored ENVS event!

If you can’t make it to the Rabb Room, watch it live here!


TIE is a proud sponsor of the Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn lecture series.

Every week during the academic year, ENVS features speakers from government, industry, academia and non-profit organizations to give presentations on environmental topics. This is a great opportunity to broaden your knowledge beyond the curriculum, meet other faculty and students and network with the speakers. See a full list of the upcoming speakers here!

Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are welcome to attend.

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