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climate change
OSU Professor zeroes in on an ocean virus to combat climate change
“’Oceans soak up carbon, and that buffers us against climate change. CO2 is absorbed as a gas, and its conversion into organic carbon is dictated by microbes,’ Sullivan said. ‘What we’re seeing now is that viruses target the most important reactions in these microbial community metabolisms. This means we can start investigating which viruses could be used to convert carbon toward the kind we want.'”
Matthew Sullivan is Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Center of Microbiome Science at The Ohio State University. He recently presented research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science showing his lab’s work on viruses that infect bacteria and the study of manipulating marine microbes into positive carbon conversion.
Read the full article about this research on Ohio State News.
‘Canary’ screening, presented by Green Columbus and Studio 35
Join Green Columbus at Studio 35 for a Green Drinks Movie Night, featuring “Canary,” the story of Ohio State professor Lonnie Thompson, PhD, whose research has advanced our understanding of Earth’s climate system and climate change.
Dr. Thompson is a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist in the Byrd Polar Research Center at The Ohio State University.
The event begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Studio 35 (3055 Indianola Ave. in Columbus). The screening is free, and concessions (including alcohol for those 21+) are available for purchase in the Studio 35 lobby.
The screening begins at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by a Q&A with Dr. Thompson and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, PhD, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State.
Visit GreenCbus.org/GreenDrinks for more information and to sign up for emails about future events from Green Columbus.
— By Beth Strausbaugh
CWRU Climate and Health Education Summit
Hosted by the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Climate and Health Education Collaborative, a Climate and Health Education Summit will be held March 14-15 on the CWRU campus.
Event organizers “welcome individuals and teams form academic health centers that include faculty and trainees from one or more health professional schools.”
January Webinar: Air Pollution and Human Health Effects
Update: This webinar has ended, but a recording is available here.
Join the Green Team Employee Resource Group from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, as it hosts an educational webinar on air quality and its effects on human health.
Register for the webinar here.
The webinar features Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission representatives Brandi Whetstone, sustainability officier, and Mauro Diaz-Hernandez, air quality and sustainability coordinator, and Hannah Lovins, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at The Ohio State University.
Whetstone and Diaz-Hernandez will detail how MORPC is planning and working on air quality issues throughout our region.
Lovins will discuss her research, including…
– the different types of air pollution we encounter
– the health effects associated with short- and long-term exposure
– the respiratory system
– how we study the effects of air pollution
– ozone exposure and particulate matter and their effects on lung immune response
– how dietary interventions can protect us from lung inflammation
Lovins is seeking her PhD in the lab of Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, and her research interests reside in pulmonary immunology, nutrition and lipid metabolism. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2020.
Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join here: go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup