Archive for March 2023
Peaks and Public Health: The Green Science Policy Institute with Dr. Arlene Blum
CHE-Alaska presents, Peaks and Public Health: The Green Science Policy Institute with Dr. Arlene Blum Please join us for a conversation with Arlene Blum PhD, a biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer and research associate in chemistry at University of California at Berkeley and founder/director of the Green Science Policy Institute (GSPI). The Green Science Policy…
Read MoreMaking the Invisible Visible: The PFAS Project Lab with Alissa Cordner
Alissa Cordner is an associate professor of sociology and an expert on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Corder is Co-Director of The PFAS Project Lab, an interdisciplinary group of faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and students affiliated with the Social Science Environmental Health Research institute at Northeastern University in Boston. The Lab studies social, scientific, and political…
Read MoreProtecting the health of future generations in the arctic through community-based participatory research and action
The Arctic is a hemispheric sink for persistent industrial chemicals and pesticides that are transported on atmospheric and oceanic currents from lower latitudes through a process known as global distillation. These chemicals bioaccumulate in the bodies of fish, wildlife, and people of the north. Far from pristine, the Arctic contains some of the most highly…
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