An article in Business First about weather changes Buffalo can expect in coming decades as a result of climate change interviews Helen Domske, associate director of UB’s Great Lakes Program. “Most people think fish can tolerate great spans of temperature, but they can’t,” she said. “The ecology of the Great Lakes, though amazing, is fragile.” The article also interviews Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, and Jason Briner, associate professor of geology. “We’re already seeing dramatic shifts in precipitation, which is a challenge in terms of storm-water management…. Most of the buildings we’re building in Buffalo now, including the various redevelopments downtown, are being prepared for a very different future,” Rajkovich said. “Ski resorts are hosed,” Briner said. “A generation from now, it will be hard to imagine the ones in Western New York will survive.”A opinion piece by Paul Battaglia, adjunct associate professor of architecture, suggests that the new Amtrak station being proposed for Buffalo be built at Canalside. “However socially well-meaning and emotionally attached to the Central Terminal we may all be, we should set that aside and complete the strategy for re-establishing downtown Buffalo as the regional center by building the Amtrak station at Canalside,” he writes.
