David Cannon is an assistant research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. His research focuses on understanding physical processes in the Laurentian Great Lakes and how they affect downstream ecosystem services.
Stephanie Smith, who is completing her senior year as an environmental studies major in the LSA Honors Program and her first year of an accelerated master's program at SEAS, is the winner of the 2025 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship. She plans to use her award money to conduct a comparative case study on climate disaster communication efforts related to flooding in North Caroline and Nepal.
Reducing food waste is a high-impact action that individuals can take to help mitigate climate change. Robin Franz Martin (BS '99) recently gave a SEAS + PitE Alumni Master Chat where she discussed her work leading the Food Recovery Initiative at Joint Venture Silicon Valley in California. To help meet ambitious targets set by a state law that went into effect in 2022, the initiative's efforts contributed to the recovery of 14 million pounds of food and the avoidance of 18,268 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2023.