Climate Change Research at Smith College
The world is fast approaching an all-hands-on-deck moment as the climate crisis picks up speed. All change, mitigation, and progress must come from knowledge, insight, and research. Academic institutions provide the scholarly building blocks necessary to create an informed and capable citizenry. The future depends upon our readiness to face the impending challenges before us all. Whether it is discipline-specific research or interdisciplinary connections, Smith faculty continue to produce important contributions toward addressing the crisis at hand.
For this exhibit, Smith ScholarWorks has brought together research that exemplifies these contributions. The collection is a living collection which will add scholarship as it is produced. It includes: faculty research out of, and often across, a multitude of disciplines; collaborations with colleagues in and out of Smith, or with students; as well as individually created work. From raw research to poetic meditations on the Anthropocene— it is an impressive body of work making a positive impact on our community: locally, regionally, and globally.
Meeting Potential New U.S. Climate Goals
Co-Designed Land-Use Scenarios and Their Implications for Storm Runoff and Streamflow in New England
Coral Gardens Reef, Belize: A Refugium in the Face of Caribbean-Wide Acropora Spp. Coral Decline
Meeting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals with the International Air Pollution Provision of the Clean Air Act
Fossil Fuel Divestment in U.S. Higher Education: Endowment Dependence and Temporal Dynamics
Heatwaves and Novel Host Consumption Increase Overwinter Mortality of an Imperiled Wetland Butterfly
Electric sector policy, technological change, and U.S. emissions reductions goals: Results from the EMF 32 model intercomparison project
Adaptation to Climate Change: Historical Evidence from the Indian Monsoon
“Climate Refugees”—A Useful Concept?
Planet Condé: Writing our Times, Writing the Anthropocene
Policy Insights from Comparing Carbon Pricing Modeling Scenarios
Relationships Between Institutional Success and Length of Tenure in a Kenyan Irrigation Scheme