Cities and Storms: Challenges and Solutions
Thursday, 03 Nov 2022 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
2022 Fobes Ronald Lecture in Environmental ConservationJennifer Cherrier, PhD., is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Brooklyn College-The City University of New York. She is also the President and Founder of Waterway Ecologics, LLC. Her 25+yrs of research expertise are in aquatic carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry with a more recent focus on water resource sustainability and nature-based approaches for offsetting urban flooding as well as human impacts on marine and freshwater systems.
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