This Week’s Events

Tuesday, January 22

Special Wally Seminar: Reconstructing the Sea-Ice Environment - Opal Proxies in the Southern Ocean
Speaker: Katharine Hendry, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Oxford
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemistry Building, Geochemistry Seminar Room
Contact: Wallace S. Broecker, broecker@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8413

Center for the Study of Science and Religion 2008 Seminar Series: Science, Religion and Politics
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Edelin, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Author "Broken Justice: A True Story of Race, Sex and Religion in a Boston Courtroom."
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR) Building, Davis Auditorium
Contact: Ossian Foley, opf1@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-1673
RSVP: Register
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr

Wednesday, January 23

CERC Teacher Training Institute Open House
Speaker: Sara Scovronick, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Sara Scovronick, ss2412@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2992
RSVP: Register
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu

Thursday, January 24

IGERT Joint Program Spring Colloquium: Stratosphere-troposphere Exchange - From Small-scales to Global-scales
Speaker: Michel Bourqui, Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University
Time: 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 214
Contact: Jennifer Cho, jc2305@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.appmath.columbia.edu/igert

Friday, January 25

LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics Seminar
Speaker: Pavel S. Berloff, Associate Scientist, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry Building, Geochemistry Seminar Room
Contact: Zachary Tessler, ztessler@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ztessler/DOCPseminar.html

LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: Clouds, Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems - Mist Connections?
Speaker: Kathleen C. Weathers, Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Time: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Geochemistry Building, Geochemistry Seminar Room
Contact: Veronica Lance, vlance@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8615
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/files/bpe/Spring2008CalendarPoster.pdf

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Closure of the Indonesian Seaway During the Middle to Late Miocene - Early History of the Western Pacific Warm Pool
Speaker: R. Mark Leckie, Professor of Micropaleontology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Jason Smerdon, jsmerdon@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/events/colloquium

Next Week’s Events

Monday, January 28

Show Me: The Poverty Action Tour
Speakers: John Legend, Grammy Award Winning Singer, Songwriter, Pianist, Performer; Founder, The Show Me Campaign; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Auditorium
Contact: Events, events@ei.columbia.edu
RSVP: Register

Wednesday, January 30

CERC Speaker Series
Speaker: Valentina Mele, Assistant Professor, Institute for Public Administration, Healthcare and Non Profit, Bocconi University
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Sara Scovronick, ss2412@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2992
RSVP: Register
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu

How the Nobel Was Won: Advances in the Science of Climate Change
Speakers: Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
James Hansen, Director, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; R. K. Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor and Director, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Time: 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, 417 International Affairs Building, Altschul Auditorium
Contact: Earth Institute Events, events@ei.columbia.edu

Thursday, January 31

Columbia Climate Center: Focus the Nation Teach In
Speakers: Various
Time: 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Contact: Amanda McIntosh, ajm2137@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-8177

Friday, February 1

LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: Evidence for Zooplankton Recovery in Chemically Recovering, Acidified Adirondack Lakes
Speaker: William Shaw, Marist College, Retired and President, Hudson River Environmental Society
Time: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology & Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Veronica Lance, vlance@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8615
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/files/BPE/Spring2008CalendarPoster.pdf

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Global Warming, Arctic Change and the International Polar Year
Speaker: Cecilie Mauritzen, Director Climate Division, Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Jason Smerdon, jsmerdon@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/events/colloquium

From Saturday, February 2 through Sunday, February 3

New York City International Polar Weekend
Speakers: Various
Time: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street, New York City
Contact: Margie Turrin, mkt@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/events/polarweekend/