Past Events
September 28, 2010
The Macondo well, now known as the site of the nation’s largest oil spill, erupted on April 20, 2010, approximately 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next 50 days, BP’s oil platform, Deepwater Horizon, poured an estimated four million gallons of raw petroleum into the Gulf. Throughout the early days of the spill, accurate information in all forms was scarce, challenging a recovery response commensurate with the scale of the accident.
September 27, 2010
MIT Atmospheric Science Seminar: Chris Forest (Penn State)
September 22, 2010
Steven E. Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, US Dept. of Energy
Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture in Chemical Engineering
September 08, 2010
Dr. Sidney R. Hemming
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University/Earth Institute
September 02, 2010
Prof. Zhongyang Luo, Dean of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
Abstract: As the second largest energy consumer in the world, China's coal-dominant energy structure causes serious environmental problems. Biomass energy is an important measure to improve its energy structure,assure energy security, protect the environment, and realize the sustainable development of rural economy.
August 20, 2010
Michael Bates, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Abstract: Convection and down slope flows in global scale, level, ocean climate models are sub grid scale processes. Some recent studies have indicated non-trivial deficiencies in the representation of these processes in level ocean climate models. These studies have motivated a renewed effort by the ocean modelling community to search for more realistic parameterisations of these processes.