Friday, November 15, 2024 - 9am (Free) - Hall of Flags, Houston Hall
Join faculty Laia Mogas-Soldevila (Architecture, DumoLab), Domenic Vitiello (City Planing/Landscape), and Thabo Lenneiye (Kleinman) at the Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center one-day symposium that will showcase the diverse and interdisciplinary approaches at the University of Pennsylvania that focus on monitoring, understanding, and effectively addressing changing climates.
The Symposium aims to highlight the inter-connectedness of topics being discussed and will foster interactions and collaborations towards addressing common objectives. In four sessions, experts from different schools will discuss (i) climate change effects on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; (ii) challenges of urbanization and climate on water, food, air and health; (iii) energy, climate communication and the role of plants in sustaining life on earth and (iv) precision regenerative agriculture and links to energy.