Most people think about trash for 30 seconds a week — the amount of time it takes them to bring their garbage bin to the curb.
Tarek Abichou has spent three decades focused on it.
When rain falls, it picks up pollution from streets, farms and other manmade features as it winds toward the ocean.
In the Broad Run watershed of Loudon County, Virginia, runoff travels through an increasingly urbanized landscape before reaching the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. In 2000, fewer than 170,000 people lived in the county. More than 400,000 people live there now.
The increasing frequency of natural catastrophes and their uneven impact on vulnerable populations calls for the development of disaster Resiliency Hubs. Now, through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a multidisciplinary team of Florida State University researchers is looking to utilize a commonly under-recognized space in disaster response: public libraries.
The FAMU-FSU Engineering researcher from the department of civil and environmental engineering will be working in the Designing Systems for Informed Resilience Engineering program (DeSire) to advance our understanding of disaster resiliency.
Florida A&M University (FAMU) and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering graduate Nemmi Cole, Ph.D., recently received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Division of Environmental Health at the University of Southern California. The award addresses environmental justice issues and health disparities in conjunction with the Department of Population & Public Health Sciences and the Keck School of Medicine, at USC.