{"id":3338,"date":"2023-04-05T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:50:27","slug":"eacs-lunch-tuesday-4-11-with-marjahn-finlayson-climate-inequity-disaster-hurricanes-and-what-we-want-to-do-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/2023\/04\/05\/eacs-lunch-tuesday-4-11-with-marjahn-finlayson-climate-inequity-disaster-hurricanes-and-what-we-want-to-do-in-the-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"EACS Lunch &#8211; Tuesday 4\/11 with Marjahn Finlayson: Climate Inequity &#038; Disaster: Hurricanes and What We Want to Do In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marjahn Finlayson &#8211; Research fellow, Open Climate <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Marjahn &#8220;MJ&#8221; Finlayson is a climate change scientist, educator, and activist. She<br>got her start in science as a tropical cyclone (hurricane) watcher, trying to figure<br>out how climate change will affect these phenomena since she is a native of a<br>hurricane-prone nation, The Bahamas. She studies severe weather in our<br>changing climate, especially for island nations and communities.<br>Based on her work in education and community engagement for climate science<br>and weather, she founded ClimateEdu Bahamas and Fin Forecasts in 2022 and co-<br>founded DAPS (Development. Advancement. Preservation. Sustainability.) as<br>conduits to extend her reach in this work.<br>As an activist, Marjahn\u2019s mission is to bring concerns of Small Island Developing<br>States and underserved communities to the center stage of the international<br>climate change talks and to work more toward radical climate justice. Marjahn<br>can be found on the Carbon Brief Global South database.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>All are Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:00 &#8211; 12:40 PM &#8211; Presentation Carnegie 113<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:40 &#8211; 1:00 PM &#8211; Pizza, Carnegie 219<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjahn Finlayson &#8211; Research fellow, Open Climate Marjahn &#8220;MJ&#8221; Finlayson is a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":3340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}