Past Events
April 21, 2012
The Cambridge Science Festival is kicking off a question campaign urging festival-goers to voice their questions and begin a dialogue about climate change. "What is climate change?" "Why are glaciers melting and what happens to people who live nearby?"
Send us your questions, and plan to join us on Saturday, April 21st for our "Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?" symposium featuring mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears, and moderated by PRI's Marco Werman, with panelists Orville Schell, Susan Solomon, James Wescoat, and Graham Cogley.
April 18, 2012
Recent attention has been given to expanding the portfolio of gasoline and diesel alternatives. The result is significant discussion around the “Open Fuel Standard” which would require that vehicles be capable of using a range of ethanol and methanol blends, and encourage or force the sale of other alternatives: hydrogen, electricity, CNG, etc.
April 13, 2012
The MIT Museum welcomes you to the public unveiling of Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya. Take a special opening day tour of the exhibition with MIT faculty and staff knowledgeable about such topics as glaciology, water rights, geology, and then join a fast-paced discussion about how your exhibit experience was influenced by your guide’s scientific perspective. Tours begin at 5:30, with discussion to follow at 6:00.
Presenters include:
April 12, 2012
Panelists:
Dr. Raymond Bradley
Director of the Climate System Research Center
UMass Amherst
Dr. Kerry A. Emanuel
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
MIT
Dr. George Huber
Alternative fuel researcher
Armstrong Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
UMass Amherst
Dr. John M. Reilly
Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
April 06, 2012
Join us for the inaugural EAPS Author's Night. Featured author, Susan Solomon, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science, MIT, presents her book "The Coldest March".
Professor Solomon's riveting book tells the tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team who in November 1911 began a trek across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole.
March 28, 2012 - March 30, 2012
SESSIONS: Progress on Climate Science; Independent Emissions Verification: Why and How?; Progress on Mitigation in the non-OECD; Progress on Mitigation in the OECD; Preparing for Adaptation; Government and Non-Government Actions