Reminder: *Climate Scientist Dr. James E. Hansen, 2010 Iscol Lecturer:
April 19
WHAT:* Dr. James E. Hansen to present "Global Climate Change, What Must
We Do Next?"
*WHEN:* April 19, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
*WHERE:* Cornell University: Kennedy Hall, David L. Call Alumni Auditorium
ITHACA, N.Y. - Dr. James E. Hansen, the father of climate-change
science, will speak at Cornell just prior to the 40th anniversary of
Earth Day. Hansen will deliver the 2010 Jill and Kenneth Iscol
Distinguished Environmental Lecture Monday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in
the David L. Call Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University
campus. His talk "Global Climate Change, What Must We Do Next?" is free
and open to the public.
Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to
congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness
of global warming. He heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
in New York and serves as adjunct professor of Earth and Environmental
Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. An active researcher
in planetary atmospheres and climate science for nearly 40 years, he was
trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr.
James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the
properties of Venus’s clouds led to their identification as sulfuric
acid. Over the past 30 years, he has performed studies and computer
simulations of the Earth’s climate to understand the human impact on
global climate.
While on campus, Dr. Hansen will also lead several classroom
discussions, attend a graduate student luncheon, meet with faculty
fellows of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, and participate
in a Q&A session "Having a Voice and Creating Change," hosted by the
Cornell Undergraduate Research Board. Dr. Hansen was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1996. In 2001, he received the Heinz
Award for Environment and the American Geophysical Union’s Roger Revelle
Medal. He received the World Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Medal
from the Duke of Edinburgh and was designated by Time magazine as one of
the 100 most influential people in 2006. In 2007, Dr. Hansen received
the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society for outstanding
promotion and use of physics for the benefit of society, the Haagen-Smit
Clean Air Award, and the Dan David Prize in the Quest for Energy. In
2008, he received the PNC Bank Common Wealth Award of Distinguished
Service for his outstanding achievements in science. His book, Storms of
My Grandchildren , was published in 2009.
Established in 1991, the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental
Lecture brings prominent scholars, news makers, scientists, and leaders
to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to
humankind. Recognizing interdisciplinary scholarship on the frontier of
scientific inquiry, the Iscol Lecture provides opportunities for Cornell
students, faculty, staff, and the public to gain new knowledge about
pressing environmental issues and enriches the intellectual character of
the university and community. A faculty awards committee, representing a
cross-section of academic disciplines, annually selects the Jill and Ken
Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer.
The Center for a Sustainable Future is grateful to Jill and Ken Iscol
for their generosity and vision in supporting this annual lecture, which
has done so much to raise awareness of environmental issues at the
forefront of scientific and scholarly inquiry, and for the many other
ways they have chosen to strengthen Cornell.
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For more information about Dr. Hansen and the Iscol Lecture, visit <
www.ccsf.cornell.edu/Iscol <http://www.ccsf.cornell.edu/Iscol>> or call the
Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future at (607) 255-7535.
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