2024
Blog: Data for social good, yes and then?: A year at openwashdata as a data scientist
Reflecting on a transformative year at the Chair of Global Health Engineering, Mian Zhong shares her journey from a new graduate to a data scientist in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector.
Blog: From Smoke to Solution: Advancing Black Carbon as a Regulatory Pollutant
Black carbon in the atmosphere contributes to climate change and is a known carcinogen. Yet, this pollutant remains largely unmonitored and unregulated. Despite its dangers, there are no guidelines on safe levels of black carbon in the air we breathe. It’s time to focus on establishing effective regulations to monitor and control black carbon concentrations in the atmosphere.
Blog: Accountability in carbon offsetting: is it effective? Is it fair?
Natalie Boyd Williams will begin her postdoctoral fellowship at ETH Zurich in the group Global Health Engineering (GHE) in May 2024. Applying her extensive experience in understanding success and failure in domestic biogas programmes, Natalie will investigate the effectiveness, transparency and fairness of Switzerland's initiative to install 10,000 domestic biogas digesters in Malawi as part of a carbon reduction initiative under the Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
Blog: Change of Plans: Lessons on Appropriate Technology from Blantyre, Malawi
Nicolas Seemann-Ricard's Blog Post is published within the ETH Ambassadors Blog on the ETH Website
Blog: Attention, Prof: You need a data steward for your team.
You are a professor. You’re working long hours; you’re working weekends; you’re sitting in committees, and stuck in meetings that could have been emails; you’re teaching, grading, supervising, and mentoring. And now, on top of all that, you are supposed to make all your research data public, while applying FAIR principles. You need a data steward.