Soot-covered birds provide clues to 20th-century pollution
October 10, 2017
Art History PhD student Carl Fuldner and his research partner Shane DuBay (PhD candidate, Evolutionary Biology, UChicago) recently published an article in the National Academy of Sciences showing "that the discoloration of ... birds in museum collections can be used to trace the amount of black carbon in the air over time and measure the effects of environmental policy on pollution."
More information available from the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative and The New York Times.
