May 5, 2024
MEERTALK May 2024
Learn about the complexity of tipping points, including the difference between positive and negative tipping points, whether pertaining to the Earth System or to human agency. Find out where we should be putting our focus and efforts.
Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor in climatology; working on Ph.D. in abrupt climate change. He has an engineering and physics background with a varied experience base including product management and organization, teaching, and research (academic and corporate).
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MEERTALK October 2023
Overheating Cities on a Hot Planet This fascinating and inspiring talk centered around how to help overheating cities through urban engineering. Ronita Bardhan is an architectural engineer and urban studies educator, with a PhD in urban engineering. Bardhan leads the research group - Cambridge Sustainable Design Group (SDG). Her research is centered around data-driven design of built environment for precision prevention from health and energy burdens in the warming climate. She triangulates building physics, engineering, and social science data to develop solutions for realising health and low-carbon energy potential in built environments. Bardhan works on climate heat stress & health in built environment. She has extensively worked in Slum Rehabilitation (social) housing (in India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Brazil).
October 1, 2023
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