<div dir="ltr">PS. I apologize for the extra email: I wanted to encourage everyone to please submit a comment to the <a href="https://chancellorsearch.ucr.edu/">UCR Chancellor Search</a>, urging them to prioritize sustainability and UC's commitment to total decarbonization by 2045.<div>Here is a link to the <a href="https://ucop.questionpro.com/t/AYY7RZ4a6g">survey on the Chancellor search</a>. and here is the <a href="https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3100155/SustainablePractices">UC sustainable practices policy</a> (see p. 19 for the commitment to achieve a 90% reduction in total emissions by 2045).</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>Dana </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM Dana Simmons <<a href="mailto:danasim@ucr.edu">danasim@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear SEHE affiliates,<br>It was so good to see many of you yesterday at the Latinxs & Environment seminar and the social hour yesterday. I can't tell you how meaningful it was to think through climate anxiety with Jade Sasser, then share snacks and conversation around a table, on the other side of a terrible week.</div><div><br></div><div>I want to highlight a great <a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/01/15/climate-scientists-take-la-fires?utm_source=UC+Riverside+Master+List&utm_campaign=5f4a74d731-newsletter-ucr-life-011625&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5f4a74d731-87554813" target="_blank">interview with SEHE affiliate Francesca Hopkins</a> about the dynamic interplay between rising temperatures, humidity levels in the air, vegetation growth and fire. Here's my takeaway: the Clausius-Clapeyron relation is a thing, and it's exponential, not linear. And - this we all know here - "we need to think differently." Thank you, Francesca.</div><div><br></div><div>In case you have not seen this through other channels: there is now a website for info about UC support for wildfire-impacted faculty, staff and students: <a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/supporting-each-other-through-the-fires/" target="_blank">https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/supporting-each-other-through-the-fires/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>UCR Leading on Climate Fellow Danielle Ma is organizing a Wildfire Relief Drive with the UCR Basic Needs Department. Here's the information from Danielle to share with your colleagues and students (flyers attached):</div><div><br></div><div><div>"Currently, I am organizing a Wildfire Relief Drive project with my fellowship and the Basic Needs Center. The goal of this project is to collect donations from today until next Friday (1/24), and redistribute them on 1/29 and 1/31 for students affected by the LA fires. We are also asking for volunteers who would be able to help out on packaging and distribution days (more information in the volunteer form). </div><div><br></div><div>I'm writing to ask if you would be open to sharing these flyers and/or the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DE276_iSVpn/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==" target="_blank">Instagram post</a> to your classes or anyone else who would be able to promote this drive. Please let me know if you'd be interested in promoting. I've attached the flyers below for your reference, and the post is linked above. If you know anyone else who'd be willing to help spread the word, please send their emails to me or send the flyers directly to them."</div></div><div><br></div><div>I'll also attach the flyer for the SEHE Open House on 1/29, just as a reminder to share if you are willing.</div><div>Take good care, everyone!</div><div>Dana</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dana Simmons<div>Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</div><div>Cooperating Faculty, Department of History</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div></div></div></div>
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