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Wisconsin Energy Institute

CANCELLED: Weston Rountable Lecture Series | Grand Challenges in Environmental Sustainability

Donald Sparks, director, Delaware Environmental Institute, University of Delaware. Soil degradation, water quality and quantity, climate change and food security are the foremost challenges of our time. Soil provides the substrate where all of these challenges commingle and interlace. This presentation will include case studies dealing with soil, air, and water contamination and carbon cycling/sequestration. Hector De Luca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. 4:15 p.m.