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    "Turbulence ahead: US Science Faces a Political Storm, and Early-Career Researchers Should Prepare Themselves," by Julia Rosen, April 27. 2017, Nature.  "Pittsburgh…
-HISTORICAL PAGE- FAQS HOW CAN WE KNOW WHICH DATA TO TARGET SO WE DON'T REPLICATE THE WORK AT OTHER DATA RESCUE EVENTS?  We are currently gathering information from experts, scientists, and community members about particularly valuable and vulnerable data. …
Digital Citizenship in a Bordered World For centuries, governments have identified people by their birthplace, their nationality, and their place of residence. But today, there's a fourth dimension: personal data. And it's significantly more complicated to pin down. Personal…
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Stay tuned for news about Eric Holthaus's final visit to Penn in November 2019.   Data at Risk: Losing Future Stories Part of the data at risk from climate change are the…
Making Climate Data Public Existing environmental data–from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports to emission market data – are being reshaped by artists to engage with a variety of publics and audiences. These materials are often available yet…
Arctic Journalisms, Civic Spaces and Indigenous Publics Mobilizing Indigenous experiences with and narratives about climate change through various media provides important insight for broad global publics about what it means to live with climate change both in the observable…
Meteorologist, journalist, aspiring game developer Eric Holthaus, will join PPEH as our first Writer-in-Residence for three short stays in 2018-19 beginning with a visit in early December 2018. A…
Kim Fortun is a Professor and Department Chair in the University of California Irvine’s Department of Anthropology.  Her research and teaching focus on environmental risk and disaster, data practices and politics, and experimental…
Formed in 2016, The Schuylkill River and Urban Waters Research Corps is a public, cooperative research project organized by Peter DeCarlo (Drexel), Danielle Redden (Bartram's Garden), and Bethany Wiggin (Penn). Since its inception the Schuylkill Corps has brought together artists, historians,…
What does is mean to do public research in the environmental humanities? This and other questions lie at the heart of this series of essays, "Public Engagements." Contributors, PPEH Fellows and students, reflect on: Who is the "public" in my public research? How will they be engaged?…