16: Urban Plants + Black Carbon = ?

For this  episode we talk with Dr. Alexandra Ponette-Gonzalez, an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning and Curator of Urban ecology at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Ponette-Gonzalez’s work focuses primarily on urban ecology.  She studies forests and trees and how they interact with the atmosphere and urban environments. She’s done a lot of cutting edge research on things like urban ecology, urban black carbon, and what happens to smoke and dust. By studying how we humans impact our urban ecosystems, which in turn impacts the climate, she hopes to better understand what the future could look like, and where climate solutions may exist in urban environments. https://wilkescenter.utah.edu/podcast/16-urban-plants-black-carbon/