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Month: October 2024

DEEPS Seminar this Friday:

The Earth and Planetary Sciences Department are happy to announce that Dr. Frank Corsetti (Chair and Professor of Earth Science at USC) will be presenting his talk Hanging around Hot Springs to Gain Insight into Life on Early Earth, or “Dear Reviewer 2, I am Aware the Proterozoic Ocean Was Not a Hot Spring”. 

Maintaining Abandonment: Engineering Mexico City’s Sewers after the implosion of Modernism (The 2024-25 Klopsteg Lecture Series)

Abstract The engineers who manage Mexico City’s vast combined sewer and drainage infrastructures are constantly improvising new ways to cajole water to flow through the crumbling system even as the city sinks due to anthropogenic land subsidence. Their labor to maintain the system amid decades of deferred maintenance and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions

New Collaborative Reporting on Environmental and Community Health Risks

A new series of investigative articles, created through a collaboration between local news outlets and NCWR has just been released. These stories focus on environmental and health concerns surrounding Cicero’s new inclusive park project, which is being developed on a former industrial site. The reports highlight key community and expert concerns about toxic soil removal