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Genocide, Environment, and Agricultural Sustainability
| Location: | Connecticut, United States |
| Lecture Date: | 2009-04-05 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-01-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
166344 |
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Orbiting satellites offer a unique lens on how humans interact with their environment. Using remote sensing techniques and satellite imagery, Russell Schimmer, a PhD candidate in UConn’s Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering and UConn Law School student, seeks to uncover the impacts human behaviors, such as war and genocide, have on the environment and the availability of resources such as food. The data offers an uncommon look and understanding of how the availability of resources can lead to competition, conflict, and large-scale violence. The hope is that the use of satellite remote sensing will help quantify people’s impact on their environment, leading to better management of resources such as food, and thus preventing conflict. Mr. Schimmer will showcase some of his findings for the Musuem’s The Natural History of Food Series. Adults and children ages 10 and above. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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David C. Colberg
Public Information Coordinator
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
Connecticut Archaeology Center
University of Connecticut
2019 Hillside Road, Unit 1023
Storrs, CT 06269-1023
Phone: 860.486.5690
Email: david.colberg@uconn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.cac.uconn.edu/mnhhome.html
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