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The Sustainable Carolina Podcast
We bring you to the center of the sustainability conversation at UNC-Chapel Hill as we explore the technologies, partners, and exciting happenings that make our campus sustainable. From the North Carolina Piedmont to around the world, we seek out and discuss the latest in sustainability.
The Sustainable Carolina Podcast
David Gorelick | Finding Your Research Interests
In this episode, we sit down with David Gorelick, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES). Gorelick and Abigail Brewer (podcast host) begin by reflecting on their time studying abroad together on the Galápagos Islands as undergraduate students.
They discuss Gorelick's academic journey, and how, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't leave Chapel Hill. Then, they dig into a 2022 CoFiRES study that used supercomputers to model water demands and risks in the Research Triangle.
The study's findings can be applied to any place where water providers are allocating supplies to communities. This is especially important in terms of utilizing sustainable management strategies in the face of a changing climate.
About Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES)
The Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES) is jointly housed in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and UNC’s Institute for the Environment. The Center, led by Greg Characklis, focuses on understanding the links between financial losses and drought, hurricanes and other extreme environmental events.
About the Center for Galápagos Studies
Built on Darwin’s foundations, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito formed a strategic partnership in 2006 to address the challenges facing the Galápagos Islands. Today, the Center for Galápagos Studies coordinates Galápagos programs at the main Chapel Hill campus and all Carolina activities in the Galápagos archipelago itself. The Center also administrates the joint UNC/USFQ Galapagos Science Center, a state-of-the-art research center located on San Cristobal Island.
Sustainable Carolina works within the UNC Institute for the Environment to increase the University energy and water efficiency and decrease waste sent to the landfill. We work with student, staff and faculty to connect University research with these operational efforts.