This Week’s Events Earth Institute Events - Week of 12/8/08

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Monday, December 8

LDEO Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics Seminar Series: Long Wavelength Convection and Poiseuille-Couette Flow in the Low-Viscosity Asthenosphere
Speaker: Tobias Hoeink, Department of Earth Science, Rice University
Time: 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology/Seismology Building Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Dana J. Miller, djm2165@columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8384

Tuesday, December 9

MA in Climate and Society: What’s the Big Deal about One Degree?
Speakers: Various
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: White Plains Library, 100 Martine Avenue White Plains, New York
Contact: Arezou Raeisghasem, ar2393@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/climatesociety/news.html

Wednesday, December 10

DEES Thesis Proposal: Inferences About Melt Transport, Chemical Processes, and the Mantle Source at Mid-Ocean Ridges from Spatial Trends in the Geochemical Variability of MORB Lavas and Mantle Residues
Speaker: Martin Collier, Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Columbia University
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Marine Biology/Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd floor
Contact: Missy Pinckert, missy@ldeo.columbia.edu

Thursday, December 11

IRI Seminar: Evaluation of Air Temperature Retrieval from Remotely Sensed Data
Speaker: Christelle Vancutsem, Visiting Research Scientist, Remote Sensing, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: IRI Seminars, seminar@iri.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://iri.columbia.edu

MA in Climate and Society: Did ‘We’ Do That? Natural and Man-made Causes of Climate Change
Speakers: Various
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Bloomingdale Public Library, 150 W. 100th Street, New York City
Contact: Arezou Raeisghasem, ar2393@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/climatesociety/news.html

Friday, December 12

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Complex Systems: Finance, Climate, and Faust
Speaker: Berrien Moore III, Professor, Biogeochemical Modeling/Inverse Method, University of New Hampshire
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium,
Contact: Natalie Boelman, nboelman@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/events/colloquium

Saturday, December 13

Earth2Class (E2C) Workshops for Teachers: The GAMBIT Project and Other Lamont Antarctic Investigations
Speakers: Margie Turrin, Education Coordinator, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Michael J. Passow, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology & Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Michael Passow, michael@earth2class.org

A Preview of Next Week’s Event

Thursday, December 18

IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing

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Directions to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Tuesday, October 14

Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MDP) Information Session
Speaker: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Kent Hall, Room 413
Contact: Noura Bakkour, nb2321@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-3142

Monday, October 20

Can We Save the World Economy? A Conversation with George Soros, Nouriel Roubini, and Jeffrey Sachs
Speakers: George Soros, Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute; Chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC; Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; John Roberts, Anchor, American Morning, CNN
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
Contact: Earth Institute Events, events@ei.columbia.edu
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Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House
Speakers: Various
Time: 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, betsy@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2525
RSVP: Register
Web Site: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2242

This Week’s Events

Monday, October 13

Office of Academic and Research Programs: Probing the Depths of the World’s Biggest Problems with a PhD in Oceanography
Speaker: Philip Orton, PhD Candidate, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Division of Ocean and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Time: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 555
Contact: Ali Frohman, afrohman@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-5193

Tuesday, October 14

Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MDP) Information Session
Speaker: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Kent Hall, Room 413
Contact: Noura Bakkour, nb2321@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-3142

Wednesday, October 15

LDEO Division of Marine Geology & Geophysics 2008 Seminar Series: Report on the First 3D MCS Survey of the M. G. Langseth - Imaging the Magmatic-hydrothermal System at the EPR 9 50′N
Speaker: Suzanne M. Carbotte, Bruce C. Heezen Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 12:10 to 1:10 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Timothy Crone, crone@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8687

Thursday, October 16

IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing
Speakers: Various
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu

IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Melting and Melting Migration in a Heterogeneous Mantle
Speaker: Yan Liang, Brown University
Time: 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 214
Contact: Jennifer Cho, jc2305@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.appmath.columbia.edu/igert

Friday, October 17

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
TBD
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Natalie Boelman, nboelman@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/events/colloquium

Saturday, October 18

Earth2Class (E2C) Workshops for Teachers: CO2 and Climate Change Prediction
Speakers: Taro Takahashi, Doherty Senior Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Michael J. Passow, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology & Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Michael Passow, michael@earth2class.org

A Preview of Next Week’s Events

Monday, October 20

Can We Save the World Economy? A Conversation with George Soros, Nouriel Roubini, and Jeffrey Sachs

Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House

Tuesday, October 21

EcoSecurities Information Session

Wednesday, October 22

Carbon Sequestration Panel

Thursday, October 23

IRI Seminar: Verification of the First 10 years of African Regional Climate Outlook Forum Forecasts

IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: “Enabling Sustainable Development of Fossil Fuel Energy Conversion Systems: Carbon Mineral Sequestration”

Millennium Villages Seminar Series: The Millennium Villages Project - Improving the Health of the Developing World

Columbia University and the Global Sustainability Challenge

Friday, October 24

LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: The CAMP - Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Province - and You’re Sitting on It

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium

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