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Katie Purvis-Roberts Receives Third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Grant
“The APEC grant allows my students and me to analyze real-world data and apply it to environmental policies, while working with international collaborators at the same time,” Purvis-Roberts explains.
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In the Media: EnviroLab Asia Gains Local Wisdom from Maui, Lahaina News Reports
“While we learned so much about history and the environment, the true highlight was what we all learned from the Maui kama’aina,” Huang said.
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Environmental Chemistry Students Collaborate Overseas to Revive Bangkok Canals
With funding from The Claremont College’s EnvironLab Asia initiative, a laboratory that links knowledge with practice, environmental chemistry students from Scripps, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna teamed up with graduate-level design students at Bangkok’s King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to conceptualize methods of reviving the canal metropolis.
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Hao Huang Reflects on COVID-19’s Environmental Effects in EnviroLab Asia
Hao Huang, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair of Music and professor of music, published a paper examining COVID-19’s environmental effects in EnviroLab Asia, The Claremont Colleges’ journal of Asia and the environment.
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Anna Burns ’22 Explores the Use of Drone Technology to Measure Air Quality in Summer Research Project
This summer, Anna Burns ’22 is examining potential methods to evaluate and reduce negative impacts within agriculture. She’s working with Marc Los Huertos, the Stephen M. Pauley, MD ’62 Associate Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College, who’s exploring the possibility of using drone technology to measure particulate matter emissions, such as air pollution, on crop and cattle farms in California.
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The Water Flows, the Rice Grows: Professor of Music Hao Huang Studies Traditional Environmental Practices in Asia
“For over a thousand years, the cycle of rice-growing in Bali was managed through water temples and organized in watershed districts, each self-governed by associations of farmers who shared the use of irrigation water for their rice fields.”
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