583 research outputs found
All Policy is Climate Policy
No full textScholar and activist Jennie Stephens discusses the future of climate policy, emphasizing a “people-first” perspective and the need for larger societal structural transformation
Marriage record of Mays, Irvin and Stephens, Jennie
No full textMarriage license for Irvin Mays and Jennie Stephens. Tho Jackson was the Notary Public
Alien Registration- Stephens, Jennie L. (Houlton, Aroostook County)
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Climate Justice and the University. Shaping a Hopeful Future for All.
No full textA radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice.
Amid the worsening climate crisis and intensifying inequities, higher education can play a powerful role in addressing the intersecting crises facing humanity. Institutions of higher education hold untapped potential to advance social justice and reduce climate injustices. However, universities are not yet structured to accelerate social change for the public good. In Climate Justice and the University, Jennie Stephens reimagines the potential of higher education to advance human well-being and promote ecological health.
Drawing on over thirty years of experience working on the climate crisis within higher education, Stephens offers a provocative and pathbreaking vision of how higher education can accelerate the shift toward more equitable, healthy, and stable futures for all. Building on a US and European context, she integrates examples from the innovative landscape of transformative education initiatives around the world.
With climate chaos exacerbating instability of all kinds, reimagining the transformative power of higher education is hopeful and empowering. By inviting readers to collectively reimagine different priorities and structures within higher education, Stephens disrupts long-held assumptions about how universities advance learning and research, suggesting possibilities to shape a more equitable future for all
MDOCS Publication-2015-11-08, TV Journalist Stone Philips
No full textTV journalist Stone Phillips to serve as honorary chair at gala
The Saratogian
November 8, 2015
Author: Jennie Gre
054 - Jennie Bukowski
No full textAirborne mineral dust has dilatant influences on the atmosphere and local environment: dust aerosols function as cloud condensation and ice nuclei, interact with radiation, fertilize maritime ecosystems, and are harmful to the human respiratory system. In arid regions, dust storms can loft an enormous amount of dust particles into the atmosphere and reduce visibility to near zero. In particular, the Arabian Peninsula reports frequent severe dust outbreaks as a result of strong surface winds, forced either by synoptic dynamics or mesoscale downdrafts, known as haboobs. Current forecast and climate models are run at high enough resolution to simulate synoptic events but still employ convective parameterizations, which are incapable of resolving many mesoscale processes. As such, the prediction of dust storms, specifically the location and timing of haboobs, remains a significant forecasting challenge. To understand the uncertainty introduced in the location and concentration of mineral dust via the use of convective parameterizations, the ratio of convective to non-convective dust events must first be established.
This study seeks to identify the origins of regional dust events across the Arabian Peninsula and quantify the relative contributions of synoptic versus mesoscale dust lofting. Here, the Weather Research and Forecasting Model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) is used to simulate a 2016 summertime dust outbreak over the Arabian Peninsula. Several coarse grid simulations with various convective parameterizations are compared against the same runs with the convective parameterizations turned off, leaving only synoptic sources of dust lofting. These results are then contrasted against a fine grid simulation with resolved convection. For simulations including convection, the inception of individual dust plumes is separated into convective and non-convective source categories. Dust concentrations based on origin are then analyzed with respect to total domain dust abundance as well as horizontal and vertical extent. Results suggest that convective dust lofting over the Arabian Peninsula is a substantial source of dust to the atmosphere, and concentrations differ between simulations with convective parameterizations and those explicitly resolving convection
How the oil and gas industry influences higher education
No full textAs the climate crisis gets worse, global fossil fuel production is growing and oil and gas companies are making record profits.
While the powerful influence of the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying on climate policy is increasingly acknowledged, our new research also shows how oil and gas companies are influencing universities.
We are researchers with combined expertise on just energy transitions and climate justice and the university (the title of Jennie Stephens’s forthcoming book). With international colleagues we undertook the first comprehensive review of academic and civil society investigations into fossil fuel industries’ ties to higher education in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
In all four countries, the research shows multiple ways oil and gas companies have been investing in universities
How the oil and gas industry influences higher education
No full textAs the climate crisis gets worse, global fossil fuel production is growing and oil and gas companies are making record profits.
While the powerful influence of the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying on climate policy is increasingly acknowledged, our new research also shows how oil and gas companies are influencing universities.
We are researchers with combined expertise on just energy transitions and climate justice and the university (the title of Jennie Stephens’s forthcoming book). With international colleagues we undertook the first comprehensive review of academic and civil society investigations into fossil fuel industries’ ties to higher education in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
In all four countries, the research shows multiple ways oil and gas companies have been investing in universities
Welker, Jennie L.
No full textMrs. Elma G. Stephens - sisterhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1920/1008/thumbnail.jp
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