Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources
Backgrounders
A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.
Rodrigo Vidal
Career Profiles
Architect, Teacher
Dr. Sasha Luccioni
Career Profiles
Postdoctoral Researcher
Piers Evans
Career Profiles
Municipal Sustainability Coordinator
Introduction to Climate Change
Backgrounders
Learn more about the causes and impacts of global climate change.
Joel Stacey
Career Profiles
Construction Superintendent
Climate: Polar Regions
Backgrounders
Learn about the unique climate found in Earth’s polar regions.
Query a Career Profile
Lessons
Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.
Cows, Methane, and Climate Change
STEM Explained
How do beef and dairy cows contribute to climate change? Livestock agriculture is a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
Krysten Rutherford
Career Profiles
PhD Candidate, Oceanography
Tropical Rainforest Biome
Backgrounders
Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of tropical rainforest biome.
Savanna Biome
Backgrounders
Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of the savanna biome.
Sheridan Thompson (she/her/they/them)
Career Profiles
Doctoral Candidate
Plant Taxonomy
Backgrounders
Learn about the categories, or phylum, of the plant kingdom with examples from each.
Plant Functions
Backgrounders
Learn about the important plant functions of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration