I am thrilled and proud to receive a
mentoring award
from the
Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center
at Vanderbilt, recognizing my
mentorship, support, and advocacy for women at Vanderbilt, especially in
STEM.
My book, Beyond Politics was included in
a list of the top environmental books of the last 50 years in a
retrospective
by Oliver A. Houck and G Tracy Mehan in Environmental Forum, published by
the Environmental Law Institute.
I was quoted in a story at the Tennessean about the unusually warm and wet winter in 2018–19:
“Winters have gotten so warm in the last 20 or so years that people forget.
Weather that wouldn’t have been remarkably cold 30 or 40 years ago seems
extraordinarily cold today.”
I was interviewed by the Dhaka Tribune on the impact of sea-level rise in
Bangladesh. I explained that with good land-management, sediment carried to
the coast by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers can raising the land
as fast as the sea is rising for the near-future, but that eventually
global warming may cause the sea level to rise faster than the land can
adapt.
The Financial Express (Bangladesh) reported on the meeting between Prof. Steve Goodbred and myself, from Vanderbilt University, and the Dr. Md. Aktaruzzaman, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University. During the meeting, we discussed academic and research collaborations between Dhaka University and Vanderbilt on climate change, riverbank erosion, access to safe drinking water, and other environmental challenges.
The Daily Samakal (Bangladesh) reported on a workshop I helped to organize
in Dhaka on
“River Navigation and Inland Shipping in Bangladesh: Economic Importance and
Impacts of Environmental Change”.
Participants included academics, government officials, representatives of the
shipping industry, and members of community and political activist groups.