Events

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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Sustainable Development Seminar Series: Food Security

Date: November 14, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST

Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred Lerner Hall, Satow Room

Speakers: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program; Director, Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Jessica Fanzo, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Institute of Human Nutrition and Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of International Public Affairs, Director of Nutrition Policy, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Peter Grace, Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Professor of Global Change, Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology; Hope Michelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Earth Institute, Columbia University.


CSSR Seminar: The Deadly Link Between Slavery and Environmental Destruction

Date: November 14, 2012 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm EST

Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Union Theological Seminary, James Chapel, 121st Street and Broadway

Speaker: Kevin Bales, Co-Founder, Free the Slaves


IRI Climate Forecast Briefing

Date: November 15, 2012 from 11:00 am to 11:30 am EST

Location: Monell Auditorium Monell Building Lamont Campus Palisades, NY

Speakers: Various


LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar Series: The Effect of Tropospheric Jet Latitude on Coupling between the Stratospheric Polar Vortex and the Troposphere

Date: November 16, 2012 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST

Location: Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building First Floor Seminar Room

Speaker: Chaim Garfinkel, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University


LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: "Using Physics to Assess Long-term Flood Risk from Tropical Cyclones"

Date: November 16, 2012 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm EST

Location: Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium

Speaker: Kerry Emanuel , Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Columbia University Superfund Research Program Monthly Seminar/Webinar Series

Date: November 19, 2012 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST

Location: Columbia University Comer Building, 1st floor conference room, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9W, Palisades NY

Speakers: Dr. Habibul Ahsan, PI, Columbia University Super Research Program Health Effects of As Longitudinal Study (HEALS) project; Director, Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, University of Chicago; Dr. Kazi Matin Ahmed, Columbia University Super Research Program scientist; Professor, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka's


After Sandy: Climate and Coastal Future

Date: November 19, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EST

Location: Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda

Speakers: Various


Earth Institute Practicum: Cities and Climate Change - Contemporary Issues in Global Land and Water Management

Date: November 20, 2012 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm EST

Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102

Speaker: Daniel Hillel, Adjunct Senior Scientist, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS); Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) The Earth Institute, Columbia University


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