The Georgetown University Earth Commons Institute, a center for environmental and sustainability innovation, research education and action, hosted a talk Feb. 9 titled “Addressing Climate Change and Sustainability through Data and Modeling” as part of their weekly ECo Talks series. The weekly ECo Talks seminars bring in leading experts from Georgetown and beyond to discuss.
The Georgetown University Earth Commons Institute, a center for environmental and sustainability innovation, research education and action, hosted a talk Feb. 9 titled “Addressing Climate Change and Sustainability through Data and Modeling” as part of their weekly ECo Talks series. The weekly ECo Talks seminars bring in leading experts from Georgetown and beyond to discuss.
For the first time in four decades, a core US interest freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce is increasingly at risk in the Middle East region. By enabling the Yemeni Houthis to attack international vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with armed drones and sophisticated anti-ship missiles, Iran, as it did in the Gulf in the late 1980s, is causing tremendous harm to commercial activity in one of the world’s most crucial waterways.
Georgetown University has a storied history with astronomy yet since 1972, that history’s only legacy has been in the neglected, aging Heyden Observatory. Founded in 1841 as part of a nascent movement across America to privately fund observatories to match those found in Europe, the Heyden Observatory has been home to more than 180.