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Mahlman Symposium
Understanding the Stratosphere: Challenges and Opportunities and Beyond the Science of Climate Change
Two Symposia to Mark the Retirement from Government Service of GFDL Director Jerry Mahlman
On Monday September 11 and Tuesday September 12, 2000, NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University's Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and the Princeton Environmental Institute sponsored two symposia to mark Jerry Mahlman's retirement from GFDL.
On Monday the symposium Understanding the Stratosphere: Challenges and Opportunities provided a forum for distinguished experts on dynamics and chemistry to review recent research and outline future directions in stratospheric science, as well as to place Jerry's contributions to this subject over the last four decades in a contemporary context. Symposia participants and their guests attended a banquet held in Jerry's honor on Monday night. Then on Tuesday the symposium Beyond the Science of Climate Change brought together renowned experts in the physical, biological and social sciences to discuss the broad human, environmental and policy implications of climate change. Both symposia were held in the Reynolds Auditorium in McDonnell Hall on the Princeton University main campus.
Understanding the Stratosphere: Challenges and Opportunities
Featured speakers were Susan Solomon ( NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory ), James Holton ( University of Washington ), James Anderson ( Harvard University ), Michael McIntyre, FRS ( Cambridge University ) and Alan Plumb, FRS ( M.I.T. )
Beyond the Science of Climate Change
Speakers were Syukuro Manabe ( Frontier Research System for Global Climate Change ), Daniel Albritton ( NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory ), Rosina Bierbaum ( White House Office of Science and Technology Policy ), Thomas Schelling ( University of Maryland ), Kai Lee ( Williams College ), Dale Jamieson ( Carleton College ), and Robert Socolow ( Princeton University ).