Upcoming Events
Featured Events
Thursday, October 1
CSSR Seminar Series: Becoming Human - Why Two Minds are Better than One
Speaker: Herbert S. Terrace, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schapiro CEPSR Building,
Davis Auditorium
Contact: Weiyi Mu, wm2170@columbia.edu
Tuesday, October 6
MPA Practicum: Tropical Agriculture and World Food Policy
Speakers: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program; Director, Millennium Villages Project; Senior Research Scholar, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Cheryl Palm, Senior Research Scientist, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program; Associate Director, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD); Science Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 4:20 to 6:10 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Columbia Law School,
Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 102
Contact: Annemarie Eimicke, aeimicke@ei.columbia.edu
This Week’s Events
Wednesday, September 30
LDEO MG&G and SG&T Seminar Series: Modeling Subglacial Hydraulic Processes and Their Effect on Ice Dynamics
Speaker: Gwenn Flowers, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Time: 12:10 to 1:10 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Marine Biology/Seismology Building,
Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Eunseo Choi, echoi@ldeo.columbia.edu
Thursday, October 1
IRI Seminar: Sustainable Profits from Farming in a Region of High Climatic Risk in India: Perspectives of a Farmer/Researcher
Speaker: P.R. Sheshagiri Rao, Farmer/Researcher
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont Campus,
Monell Building, Room 205
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu
CSSR Seminar Series: Becoming Human - Why Two Minds are Better than One
Speaker: Herbert S. Terrace, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schapiro CEPSR Building,
Davis Auditorium
Contact: Weiyi Mu, wm2170@columbia.edu
Friday, October 2
LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar: What Causes the South Asian Monsoon? Plateau Heating vs. Orographic Insulation
Speaker: William R. Boos, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Lamont Hall,
Worzel Seminar Room
Contact: Colin Kelley, cpk2111@columbia.edu
W.S. Jardetzky Lecture: Too Small to See, Too Big to Ignore - What Prochlorococcus Has Taught Me About Life and the Ocean
Speaker: Sallie W. Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Biology, MIT
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Office of the Director, director@ldeo.columbia.edu
Next Week’s Events
Monday, October 5
The Obama Administration�s Road to Copenhagen: Views From the Trenches
Speaker: Jody Freeman, Counselor for Energy and Climate Change, The White House;
Lorie Schmidt, Senior Counsel, US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee; Taiya Smith, China Program Carnegie Endowment for Peace; Stephen Eule, Climate and Technology, US Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University
Morningside Campus
Columbia Law School, Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 104
Contact: Energy, energy@columbia.edu
Tuesday, October 6
MPA Practicum: Tropical Agriculture and World Food Policy
Speakers: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program; Director, Millennium Villages Project; Senior Research Scholar, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Cheryl Palm, Senior Research Scientist, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program; Associate Director, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD); Science Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 4:20 to 6:10 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Columbia Law School,
Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 102
Contact: Annemarie Eimicke, aeimicke@ei.columbia.edu
Open House: MA Program in Climate and Society
Speakers: Various
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Hogan Hall - Conference Room A100
(at the corner of Broadway and 114th Street, enter doors on Broadway)
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/hogan.html
Contact: Arezou Paksima, ar2393@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-9896
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/climatesociety
Thursday, October 8
Earth Institute Seminars in Sustainable Development - Focus on Climate: Negotiating a New International Climate Treaty
Speakers: Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of International and Public Affairs; Geoffrey Heal, Director, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Faculty House,
First Floor,
Garden Room 2
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, en2109@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2399
Friday, October 9
Undergraduate Special Concentration in Sustainable Development Information Session at Columbia
Speaker: Kevin Griffin, Interim Director, Special Concentration in Sustainable Development; Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University.
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schermerhorn Extension,
Room 555
Contact: Catherine Q. Aldrich, cqa2@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-9610
Web Site: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/1923
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Increased Tropical Fire Emissions During the Medieval Warm Period - Evidence From a West Antarctic Ice-Core
Speaker: Ross Edwards, Associate Research Professor, Division of Hydrology, Desert Research Institute
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Scott Nooner, snooner@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/earth-science-colloquium/2009-2010
To see the complete listing of all future events, visit the Calendar
