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Professor Quoted on Controversial Annenberg Wetlands Proposal

SSI Associate Professor (Research) Travis Longcore was quoted by the LA Weekly in two pieces reporting on a controversial proposal to place a combination visitor center/animal adoption center in Area C of the the state-owned Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. Annenberg Foundation Can’t Grasp Disgust Over Its Wetlands “Interpretive Center” and Dog Pound Wallis Annenberg’s Controversial Visitor Center at…
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Digging for Knowledge

USC Dornsife’s very own Indiana Jones, Thomas Garrison is heading up an international team to excavate two unique Maya temples in the Guatemalan jungle — National Geographic’s most popular discovery story in 2012. By Susan Bell Evening is falling on the ancient Maya kingdom of El Zotz deep in the dense undergrowth of the Guatemalan jungle.…
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Carbon Footprint Labels Inaccurate, USC Study Finds

By Eddie North-Hager The current methods used to measure the carbon footprint of many consumer products fall short of assessing their true environmental impact, according to two studies from Robert Vos of the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. Carbon labels — which aim to quantify the climate change impacts of a particular item — now appear on…
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L.A. Has a Heart

Many dismiss the structure of Los Angeles as urban sprawl. But Samuel Krueger, a graduate of the GIST master’s program in USC Dornsife, disproves this notion by showing L.A.’s distinctive heart. His research has earned him awards from two renowned academic organizations. By Michelle Salzma Writer Dorothy Parker once haughtily dismissed Los Angeles as “72…
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