University of Iowa Professor Jerry Schnoor takes his students afloat and afield to learn firsthand about making a difference in the world through environmental engineering. His expertise is in groundwater quality.
In March 2008, University of Iowa professor Greg Carmichael published new findings revealing a striking connection between soot (aka "black carbon") and global warming.
On December 26, 2004, a series of tsunamis arose from the Indian Ocean, claiming nearly 230,000 victims.
Only second to Indonesia in lives lost, Sri Lanka suffered over 30,000 deaths.
A 15-minute documentary culled from 25 hours of footage and interviews with hoteliers, refugees and activists in Sri Lanka -- called "2006 Sri Lanka: Business, Relief, and Water after the Tsunami," was a project of University of Iowa professor Dr. Paul Greenough, UI cinema major Swarnavel Eswaranpillai and Harish Naraindas of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The documentary was edited by Soheil Rezayazdi.
“The level of these toxins in the Great Lakes fish is so high that the federal
government has banned commercial fisheries there. And yet the manufacture of PCBs
has been banned for 30 years. So where are they coming from? Keri Hornbuckle, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
SHARPLY reducing the amount of "black carbon" - commonly known as soot - in the atmosphere could help slow global warming and buy precious time in the fight against climate change, new research says.
Soot just got a little bit darker.
Caused by diesel fuel and biofuel exhaust, soot has been shown to warm the atmosphere three to four times greater than previous reports have shown.
A new study says that black carbon pollution contributes more to global warming than previously thought.
Black carbon pollution, or soot, produced by burning wood, coal, cow dung and diesel fuel, may be a much greater contributor to global warming than previously suspected, according to a study released this week.
The world is changing from the fossil fuel age to an era with sustainable, energy-efficient resources.
But this movement will take a lot of work, engineering professor Jerry Schnoor said Thursday at the Biofuels and Alternative Energy seminar.
Not to scare you, but they’re everywhere. Misting from perfume bottles. Drifting in the air. Dripping down your bare leg and spiraling down the shower drain.
And, contrary to what most would believe, they may not be so harmless.
People living in the Arctic are dependent upon dwindling fish and plant life, not just for their livelihoods, but also for their very survival. Many environmental experts believe that worldwide, the number of severe storms, the incidence of drought and the melting of glaciers will only increase as time goes on, impacting more people around the globe.
David Osterberg boasts quite the resumé: he's an associate professor at the University of Iowa, he served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1983-1994, he's an advisory board member for the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER), and he's the founder and executive director of the Iowa Policy Project (IPP).
A group of University of Iowa volunteers gathered on November 15, 2007, to sift through trash collected from the previous day. Their goal? To see how much of this "trash" is really trash. Watch volunteers get their hands dirty to divert Dasani bottles, Rockstar cans, and reams of paper from the Iowa City Landfill.
