Past Events
September 15, 2012
On Sept. 13th, EAPS professor and atmospheric science pioneer Susan Solomon discussed "The World's Chemistry In Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past and Future" as part of the MIT School of Science Dean’s Colloquium Series.
Solomon spoke on past environmental accomplishments, technology’s role and how history should be our guide to meeting today’s global challenges.
July 11, 2012
Speaker: Prof. Ralf Conrad, Director of the Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
May 01, 2012
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Foley, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
Event: 12th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
In his talk, Foley will discuss how increasing population and wealth, along with changing patterns of diet and consumption, are placing unprecedented demands on the world's agriculture and natural resources. He will propose possible solutions to this dilemma, which together could double the world’s food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
May 01, 2012
Professor Jonathan Foley, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
12th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture
April 23, 2012
An exhibition of proposed artworks, To Extremes sought ideas last year for public art projects on climate from 50 invited artists and designers. To inform their work, artists and designers referred to nine dossiers on various themes covered in a major science report on climate and extreme events released in November 2011. In February a jury of experts in the visual arts and climate sciences selected the winners and proposals that would make up the exhibition, which is part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
April 23, 2012
Stay tuned for pictures and a news story after the event.
Andrew Revkin is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and writes the award-winning Dot Earth blog for The New York Times. He has spent nearly three decades covering subjects ranging from the assault on the Amazon rain forest to the troubled relationship of climate science and politics.