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Expo \u2774: 50 years of Environmental Justice in the Inland Northwest, Accelerating the Pursuit for Environmental Justice
No full textIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Expo \u2774, the Gonzaga Climate Institute—in collaboration with the US Attorney\u27s Office for the Eastern District of Washington, the Washington State Attorney General, and the Gonzaga Law School Center for Law, Ethics, and Commerce—hosted a one day conference at Gonzaga looking retrospectively at the environmental justice work done over this half century and what work remains to be done in the coming decades.
Part 3, Accelerating the Pursuit for Environmental Justice, features Cliff Villa, Deputy Assistant Administrator from the U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management
Cliff Villa serves as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. EPA Office of Land and Emergency Management, where he provides policy direction for programs including Superfund cleanup, Brownfields funding, hazardous waste management, underground storage tanks, Federal facilities, and emergency response. At EPA, Villa supports Biden Administration priorities centered on environmental justice and climate change, drawing upon expanded resources provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Currently on leave from the tenured faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Law, Villa has also taught at Columbia Law School and Seattle University. Before teaching full-time at UNM, Villa spent more than 20 years as an EPA attorney in Washington, D.C.; Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington. Among other publications, Villa is the lead author of ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: LAW, POLICY & REGULATION (3rd ed. 2020), and author of legal scholarship on environmental justice including Remaking Environmental Justice (2020); and Don’t Blame the Flint River (2022). Villa was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with local roots tracing back to the Atrisco Land Grant of 1692
Breaking It Down: What Factors Control Microbial Decomposition Rates?
Get PDFDemonstrating and modeling changes in ecosystem processes in the laboratory classroom can be logistically difficult and expensive. This complexity often leaves little time for students to generate and test hypotheses. Yet, we must foster student understanding of how matter and energy move through ecosystems to develop an appreciation of how current ecosystems function and how human-mediated global change may alter ecosystem processes. In this lesson, we describe an adaptation of the Tea Bag Index (TBI) that provides students with an inexpensive, adaptable, and easily replicated method for testing how an ecosystem function (i.e., decomposition by microorganisms) alters carbon flow between two carbon pools (i.e., dead organic matter and the atmosphere). We outline the steps that small student research groups can take to develop testable research questions with an emphasis on how abiotic factors (e.g., temperature, moisture availability) can influence the rate of biomass loss. We outline the equipment and methods that can be used for conceptual add-ons (e.g., CO2 gas analysis) and include exercises that work on teaching students principles of tidy data organizing and data analysis. Finally, we include rubrics for written and graph-based assignments and an example dataset to assist instructors in implementing the lab in their own courses. In post-lab evaluations, students reflected positively on this lab exercise in open-ended course evaluation prompts and we observed better quality data collection and analysis in subsequent experimental labs, likely motivated by the practice and guidelines provided in this lab module
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