Ashley Mastroddi & Akasha Solis
Dear City College Campus Community,
This year for Climate Week, we are collaborating with our partners at the Appalachian Mountain Club to bring AMC members and CCNY students, faculty, staff, and alumni together to spread awareness about climate change and join forces to drive climate action.
One of our Climate Week events will feature Professor Kyle McDonald, Terry Elkes Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Director of CCNY’s Sustainability in the Urban Environment MS Program. Professor McDonald has been active in conducting NASA Earth science investigations for several decades and in advancing NASA and international Earth science mission concepts (NISAR, SMAP). He and Katherine Gloede Silverman, Assistant Director of the Sustainability in the Urban Environment Program, will join us along with two graduate students from the sustainability program, Leah Ives and Fatima Abidi. Leah and Fatima are a part of a sustainability program capstone team studying urban forests using remote sensing data to assess urban heat island reduction strategies, including data collection and analysis in Van Cortlandt Park and the New York Botanical Garden. The group will discuss the importance of urban green space alongside flora and fauna.
This event is taking place on Sunday, September 24th at 9 AM. See the form to RSVP to the Van Cortlandt Park hike. We will meet at 9 AM just outside of the #1 train station at 242nd Street, facing uptown, on the side closest to the park.
There are a limited number of spots for these events, so please sign up quickly! This form will be closed once we have reached maximum capacity for the events. If the form is closed, please email outdoorsccny@ccny.cuny.edu to be added to our waitlist.
Sincerely,
Ashley Mastroddi & Akasha Solis