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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments introduced policies that temporarily restricted individual freedoms to bring transmission rates down. The combination of things shutting down or at least being less crowded, masking, and vaccination rates brought rates down. But, this created a reduced understanding of risk. The perception by some was that rates … Continue reading
I am (mostly) a weekday vegetarian. It took me a while to make the switch. I knew the harms of raising animals for meat, but I’m not a huge fan of cooking so finding vegetarian recipes was my excuse. During the pandemic, I signed up for a food box and selected the vegetarian option. This … Continue reading
Modelling tools are key to responding to different weather impacts and climatic events, but only if they keep up with change themselves. Li and colleagues (2024) looked at drought management tools in the US. What they found is that the tools aren’t keeping up to climate change. With extreme droughts becoming more and more common … Continue reading
Modelling tools are key to responding to different weather impacts and climatic events, but only if they keep up with change themselves. Li and colleagues (2024) looked at drought management tools in the US. What they found is that the tools aren’t keeping up to climate change. With extreme droughts becoming more and more common … Continue reading
Modelling tools are key to responding to different weather impacts and climatic events, but only if they keep up with change themselves. Li and colleagues (2024) looked at drought management tools in the US. What they found is that the tools aren’t keeping up to climate change. With extreme droughts becoming more and more common … Continue reading
This past weekend saw our first of what will likely be many air quality alerts due to wildfire smoke this year. Several years of drought, including a very low snowfall this past winter are making for very dry conditions. But another factor is also creating increased risk: zombie fires. Zombie fires and those that go … Continue reading
I can make a lot of changes to my own diet in order to improve my personal sustainability. Some of these, like reducing animal products are relatively straightforward. I just need to make sure that I meet my nutrition requirements and then cutting back on things like meat or dairy is pretty easy. But, I … Continue reading
I was reviewing student work on climate change a few weeks ago and realized that it was taking a toll on my mental health. The activity in question, asks students to create, take, or find an image that conveys something about climate change. I’ve had this activity in my course for a number of semesters … Continue reading
As spring and warmer weather slowly creeps towards us, I got to thinking about bugs. Specifically, I was thinking about how few bugs get caught on car windshields these days. But when I started looking for research on this I got distracted by birds using bugs on cars as a food source. Jokimäki and Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki … Continue reading
I have three general approaches to finding topics to write about here. I search recent research on a general topic, I look up answers on a specific question that someone asked me, or I go down a rabbit hole where one question leads to the next and the next. Designing research studies can be similar, … Continue reading
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