by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Faculty Opinions
By Dorit Aviv, Ph.D Waterfront communities are the most susceptible to climate change and to extreme weather events. Beyond the risk of flooding itself, centralized water and energy systems are prone to failure under dynamic storm conditions; the connectivity of...
by agaray | Oct 21, 2020 | Faculty Opinions
By Tony Sauder Lecturer and Academic Advisor Master of Science in Applied Geosciences Program University of Pennsylvania The Penn chapter of Engineers without Borders (PennEWB) has been involved in water and sanitation projects in the Lake Atitlán region of Guatemala...
by agaray | Jul 15, 2020 | Faculty Opinions
By Daeyeon Lee, ProfessorUniversity of PennsylvaniaChemical and Biomolecular EngineeringJuly 16, 2020One of the most critical challenges that we face is providing access to clean water for every region and human being. Combinations of different phenomena including...
by agaray | Mar 18, 2020 | Faculty Opinions
By Tom Daniels, ProfessorDepartment of City and Regional PlanningWeitzman School of DesignUniversity of PennsylvaniaMarch 19, 2020The hardest part of creating a successful stormwater management program is to get private landowners to green up their properties. But...
by agaray | Dec 9, 2019 | Faculty Opinions
By Sally Willig, Lecturer & Advisor Master of Environmental Studies University of Pennsylvania December 10, 2019 Puerto Rico’s diverse ecosystems derive from its varied climate, geology, topography, and disturbance history (Gould et al. 2008; Miller and...
by agaray | Aug 21, 2019 | Faculty Opinions
By Simon Richter, Interim Department Chair and Acting Graduate Chair Germanic Languages and LiteraturesSeptember 3, 2019 There is a whole lot of floating going on in the Netherlands. That is not surprising when you consider that 26% of the country is below sea...
