Mondays at 4:00 pm in 112 Walker Building
- a lecture series sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, the Environment and Natural Resources Institute, the EMS Energy Institute, and the College of Agricultural Sciences - All talks are open to the public and are scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building
Sept 10 | Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Professor of Philosophy Klaus Keller Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University |
"Ethical Dimensions of Geoengineering" |
Sept 17 | Michael Mann Associate Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University |
"The Science of Climate Change" |
Sept 24 | Steve Maruszewski Deputy Associate Vice President for Physical Plant |
"Penn State's Carbon Footprint" |
Oct 1 | Fan Zhang Assistant Professor of Energy Policy and Economics, Penn State University |
"Taxation vs. regulation as a CO2 control policy" |
Oct 8 | Klaus Lackner Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University |
"CO2 Sequestration" |
Oct 15 | Carl Hess/Mark Whitfield State College Borough Govt. |
"Local Government Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions" |
Oct 22 | Klaus Keller Assistant. Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University Art Small Associate. Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University Jim Kasting Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University |
"Economic discounting and the Stern Review" |
Nov 12 | Damon Matthews Asst. Professor of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal Quebec |
"Geoengineering" |
Nov 12 | Alan Robock Professor of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University |
"Smoke and Mirrors: Is Geoengineering a Solution to Global Warming?" |
Nov 26 | Kathleen McGinty Secretary, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection |
"To Be Announced" |
Dec 3 | Bill Easterling Dean of College of Earth & Mineral Sciences, Penn State University |
"Title to be Determined" |
Co-sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Systems Institute and Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment