FEATURED SPEAKERS
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. His professional research interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. An exceptional communicator, Dr. Tyson appears as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA’s program NOVA ScienceNow, offering an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe. |
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THOMAS E. LOVEJOY became the first recipient of the newly created Heinz Center Biodiversity Chair in August 2008. A former president of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Dr. Lovejoy conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project, originated the concept of debt-for-nature swaps, and coined the term "biodiversity." In 1982, he founded the public television show Nature. |
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JAMES RODGER FLEMING is professor of science, technology, and society at
Colby College. His research involves the history of meteorology, climate
change, global change, and the relevance of this history to public
policy. Dr. Fleming is the founder of the International Commission on
History of Meteorology and author or editor of over a dozen books, including his latest, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather
and Climate Control. |
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JOHANNES FEDDEMA is professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Kansas. His primary interest is understanding the human impact on the Earths surface, including the anthropogenic impacts on climate, and how climate change affects the environment and society. Dr. Feddema's current research primarily aims to simulate human impacts on the Earth's surface in large-scale climate models. |
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GAVIN SCHMIDT is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. He works on developing and improving coupled climate models and is particularly interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic proxy data. Dr. Schmidt also works on assessing the climate response to multiple forcings, such as solar irradiance, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and greenhouse gases. |
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RICHARD S. LINDZEN is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include the broad topics of climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability. Dr. Lindzen is currently studying the determinants of pole to equator temperature difference, the nonlinear equilibrium of baroclinic instability and the contribution of such instabilities to global heat transport. |
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ROBERT MENDELSOHN is the Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research has concentrated on valuing the environment and this work has been extended in recent years to greenhouse gases, where he has tried to measure the impacts of climate change. Recently, Dr. Mendelsohn has returned to the study of air pollution in the hope of measuring the marginal damages of emissions across the country. |
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DAVID R. FOSTER is Director of the Harvard Forest, a 3,500-acre ecological laboratory and classroom in central Massachusetts. Foster is the Principal Investigator for the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Program which investigates the dynamics of New England landscape as a consequence of climate change, human activity, and natural disturbance. At Harvard University, Foster teaches courses on forest ecology and environmental change and directs the graduate program in forest biology. |
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