Assistant Prof. of Environmental Health and Policy @virginia_tech. 🌎
Joined March 2013
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On March 15, the driver of a Lexus SUV fleeing a traffic stop killed 3 people on Rock Creek Pkwy in D.C. The Lexus has >$17,000 (originally reported as >$12,000) in unpaid moving violations, exposing many problems with D.C. traffic enforcement. 1/12 wtop.com/dc/2023/03/3-dead-2…
Hydro-Québec met sa réputation en jeu à #GullIsland en s’appuyant sur les études enviro. discréditées. Une collab. avec Terre-Neuve risque de devenir un boulet pour le QC sans + de clarté sur l’encadrement scientifique. Mon article dans @LP_LaPresse:
lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinion…
How can we use models to build consensus over the future of Canada/US energy integration? How can we address controversies and disagreements over the role of Canadian hydropower? New article by @EmilDimanchev @stuartcohen8, Ryan McManamay and me in ERIS (@IOPenvironment)
New perspective paper!
How can science better serve the needs of building a cleaner Canadian-US energy system?
We highlight gaps in public data & models, and argue for #opensource research.
by @rycalder, myself, Stuart Cohen, & Ryan McManamay: iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
What if we… coauthored a study on the economic damage wrought by parisitic mistletoe families Loranthaceae, Misodendraceae, and Santalaceae on commecial timber harvests
Closing out 2023 with a humblebrag about our paper 🐠 🎣
🔟First up on our Top Articles of 2023 Countdown is "Drivers of Atlantic #herring decline and evidence basis for fisheries closures and rebuilding plans" by @rycalder, Jenni L. McDermid, and @OceansStephanie (@FishOceansCAN). Read it here: ow.ly/kS9S50QitqL #BestOfCSP
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hey 👋 please be mindful that many of us teaching-coded folx have been living in a “costume” every single day in the classroom and this is nothing to celebrate or be spooky about
Glad for @AminaSchartup's and my article to be selected for Editor's Highlight in @AguGeohealth! We argue that geohealth analysis of tradeoffs leads to policy *benefits* and that this is more relevant than policy *impact*.
Connecting the Dots Between Geohealth Research and Health Policy--my latest in @AGU_Eos featuring an excellent new @AguGeohealth paper by @rycalder
eos.org/editor-highlights/co…
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Proud of @SafeStreetsDC work with @rycalder to push DC to reckon with its enforcement lapses and loopholes. Ensuring that the most reckless drivers are removed from the streets is a critical element of vision zero.
Too many people are being killed on US roads. Black, Hispanic & indigenous ppl are overwhelmingly victims.
While cities work to end discriminatory traffic enforcement, they must also find a way to keep streets safe. I wrote about it @voxdotcom:
vox.com/23880418/traffic-saf…
A good day to recap our @EnvSciTech paper quantifying the net benefits of @CHPExpress and resolving some controversies in the cost-benefit analysis of U.S. imports of Canadian hydropower. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
In Astoria for the groundbreaking of a critical new @CHPExpress converter station to bring clean energy directly into NYC - a major milestone for the City’s climate goals and the product of over a decade of work!
#ClimateWeekNYC
This includes >$4 billion in premature mortality in disproportionately African American/Hispanic counties.
This was the case study used in our recent @EnvSciTech paper demonstrating that, despite the huge price tag, it is still vastly cost-effective given the generation and emissions it likely displaces pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
We also demonstrated that the cost-benefit analysis used by New York State vastly underestimated benefits because it considered "cost of power" as a check written from NY to QC rather than the opportunity cost of how hydropower could be used elsewhere
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See @rycalder’s post for details 👉 xitter.cf/rycalder/status/169694…
Full Paper, Free Access 👉 doi.org/10.1029/2023GH000858
Earth scientists are interested in health and policy implications of research. Yet, policy advice is often naive and simplistic and creates aderse outcomes. Today in @AGUGeohealth, @AminaSchartup and I argue for policy advice based on *tradeoffs* 1/13 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Earth scientists are interested in health and policy implications of research. Yet, policy advice is often naive and simplistic and creates aderse outcomes. Today in @AGUGeohealth, @AminaSchartup and I argue for policy advice based on *tradeoffs* 1/13 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
To the extent possible, policy advice should reflect the tradeoffs, constraints, and priorities of affected communities (meaning: engage the communities your policy advice could benefit!) ... 12/13
Overall, we argue these strategies are key to unlocking environmental justice benefits from the highly convergent and potentially multidisciplinary and highly collaborative field of geohealth. 13/13 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…