Past Events
September 22, 2009
Prof. John Heywood of MIT will present a lecture in the Transportation@MIT Seminar Series.
September 16, 2009
Prof. John Eiler of CalTech will present a seminar in the EAPS Department Lecture Series.
September 14, 2009
Prof. Robert Pindyck of MIT Sloan will present a seminar based on his recent paper. Abstract: Focusing on tail e?ects, I incorporate distributions for temperature change and its economic impact in an analysis of climate change policy. I estimate the fraction of consumption w*(τ) that society would be willing to sacri?ce to ensure that any increase in temperature at a future point is limited to τ.
June 24, 2009 - June 26, 2009
SESSIONS: Progress in Analysis of Climate Risk at Regional Scale; Managing Climate Risk in the Mediterranean Basin; The Effects of Recession on Climate Policy; Protection of Forest Carbon and Diversity: Verification and Permanence; Mechanisms or Broadening Engagement by Developing Countries; The State of the COP-15 Negotiations
May 22, 2009
Dr. Noelle Eckley Selin of the MIT Center for Global Change Science. Abstract: Concern about the toxicity of mercury depositing to ecosystems has prompted efforts to regulate its emissions in both national and international policy arenas. Current concentrations of atmospheric mercury have increased three-fold since pre-industrial times, and the main source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is coal-fired power generation.
May 22, 2009
Dr. Torge Martin of Princeton University and GFDL. Abstract: The IPCC AR4 states that global coupled climate models (GCMs) should consider dynamic-thermodynamic ice sheets in the future, and that at least half of the mass loss from the large ice sheets, roughly 2000 GT of freshwater per year, appears in the form of icebergs. We couple dynamic-thermodynamic lagrangian particle icebergs to GFDL's next generation GCM in order to achieve a realistic distribution of freshwater input to the ocean from melting land ice.