Events

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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The Art Science Dating Game

Date: March 27, 2013 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EDT

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028

Moderator: Nilda Mesa, Associate Dean for Administration, School of Journalism, Columbia University; Speakers: Robin Bell, Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University;Robert Chen, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute; Kenneth Broad, Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; Director, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science, University of Miami; Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, MET’s current artist-in-residence, Lars Jan, Founder and Director, Early Morning Opera, Eve Mosher, Artist and Interventionist


State of the Planet 2013: Water Security

Date: March 28, 2013 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am EDT

Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Alfred Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Auditorium; Live webcast will also be available

Moderator: Laura Trevelyan, BBC World News America; Speakers: Raman Ahuja, Independent Advisor (formerly with Unilever, FieldFresh Foods & Firmenich S.A, India); John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University; Mark Cane, G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, Columbia University; Rich Delaney, Senior Vice President Global Operations, PepsiCo, Inc.; Upmanu Lall, Director, Columbia Water Center, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Vijay Modi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University; Brian Richter, Global Freshwater Team, The Nature Conservancy; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Richard Sandor, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Financial Products, LLC; Francisco de Assis de Souza Filho Director, Columbia Water Center, Brazil; Sue Tsokris, Vice President , Global Citizenship and Sustainability, PepsiCo Foundation


Earth Summit - Resolution Social Venture Challenge

Date: March 28, 2013 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm EDT

Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Faculty House, Presidential Room 1

Speakers: Various


Climate and Society Lecture Series: Energy, Finance and Climate Change Working Together or Pulling Apart?

Date: March 28, 2013 from 7:10 pm to 8:30 pm EDT

Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus 141 Uris Hall ***N.B. if you do not have a CUID and wish to attend, please contact Cynthia Thomson (cct2117@columbia.edu)

Speakers: Kenvin Parker, former Global Head, Deutsche Asset Management; Travis Bradford, President and Founder, Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development; Manuel Pinho; Visiting Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University


DEES Thesis Proposal: Reevaluating the Constraints on Styles and Amounts of Extension in Southeastern Idaho

Date: March 29, 2013 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am EDT

Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, First Floor Seminar Room

Speaker: Marc Vankeuren, Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia University


LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar Series: Pinging the tropical Pacific: Atmospheric Blocking as a Mechanism for Charging Equatorial Pacific Heat Content

Date: March 29, 2013 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT

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

Speaker: Bruce Anderson, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University


LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Stratospheric Ozone: How We Came to Understand its Chemistry and Response to Perturbations

Date: March 29, 2013 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm EDT

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

Richard Stolarski, Research Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University


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