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2016 Autumn | Climate Change, Education & Outreach, Sustainability

Academic Air Travel’s Flying Footprint

Student(s):

Tessa Yip

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Elise Glassman

Partner(s):

  • UW Sustainability

Faculty advisor(s):

Kristi Straus, Program on the Environment, University of Washington

For my capstone, I worked on an air travel project with UW Sustainability that can help UW lower its carbon footprint. I developed a communications plan for the UW Travel Office, which would launch a conversation across campus about reducing UW’s air travel emissions. I was especially interested in determining what factors affect academic air travel from the perspective of UW faculty members, as this would help UW find paths to reduce flying emissions. I discovered that the many factors affecting academic air travel exist within various scales of the academic system and have their own influences on travel behavior.