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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> or call the
Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future at (607) 255-7535.
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