Episode Topic: A Walk Through South Bend (https://go.nd.edu/0fe630)

How can urban landscapes improve air and water quality, cool neighborhoods on a hot day, and support biodiversity? Watch as Deb Marr Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Indiana University South Bend, explore this question. Urban landscapes are more than backdrops — they reflect our history, knowledge, and affect the health of our communities in fundamental ways. The city of South Bend is working to nearly double our urban tree canopy coverage. In this talk we will explore ways that soil ecology and increasing tree canopy coverage can improve human health, as well as address the complex problems of climate change and loss of biodiversity. Deb will share some early data that we have on ways that soil ecology is affected by landscaping practices, and connections between landscape and carbon emissions.

Featured Speakers:

• Deb Marr Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Indiana University South Bend 

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This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Our Universe Revealed. (https://go.nd.edu/6d2a91)

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