PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, & BIODIVERSITY
Researchers at Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute are tackling questions around climate change and its effects on biodiversity and human health. In 2022, Talking Eyes produced a series of three films examining the impact of climate on infectious diseases, biodiversity, and climate modeling.
Infectious Disease
There are numerous unanswered questions about how disease spread is being impacted by changes in extreme weather, temperature shifts, climate migration, and population density. Researchers affiliated with Princeton’s Climate and Infectious Disease Group are working across disciplinary lines to explore how climate-induced changes in the earth’s atmosphere and human behavior influence disease transition.
Climate Modeling
Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces interact and combine in powerful, yet often unseen, ways as part of a complex planetary system that determines the climate. Over many decades, researchers at Princeton University have played a leading role in the development of advanced computational models that simulate interactions among these elements to inform an understanding of future climate scenarios under varying conditions.
Biodiversity
Clean water, nutritious foods, and the regulation of disease vectors are among the many products of healthy ecosystems. At Princeton, researchers are studying species in the field and modeling environmental change to gain insights into how plants, animals and ecosystems may function in the future with implications for human health and well-being.