Featured Events

Monday, January 25

CERC Sustainable Investing Lecture
Speaker: Mark Fulton, Climate Change Chief Strategist, Deutsche Bank
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Uris Hall, Room 140
Contact: Paige Olmsted, plo2101@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-8664
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Thursday, January 28

School of Continuing Education Graduate Program Fair
Speakers: Various
Time: 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda
Contact: School of Continuing Education, ce-info@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ce.columbia.edu

This Week’s Events

Monday, January 25

CERC Sustainable Investing Lecture
Speaker: Mark Fulton, Climate Change Chief Strategist, Deutsche Bank
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Uris Hall, Room 140
Contact: Paige Olmsted, plo2101@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-8664
RSVP: Register

Tuesday, January 26

Earth Institute Practicum:Global Progress in Ending Hunger and Undernutrition
Speaker: Jessica Fanzo, Nutrition Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project; Nutrition Director, Center for Global Health and Economic Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 4:20 to 6:10 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Columbia Law School, Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 102
Contact: Annemarie Eimicke, aeimicke@ei.columbia.edu

CERC Information Session: Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U)
Speaker: Desmond Beirne, Program Coordinator, Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U), Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Desmond Beirne, djb2104@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-0149
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu

Wednesday, January 27

CERC Information Session: Inquire Institute
Speaker: Rob Quatrone, Education Programs Associate, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University Morningside Campus Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Rob Quatrone, rpq1@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2992
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu

LDEO MG&G and SG&T Seminar Series - Earth Surface Processes in Time Space
Speaker: Christopher Small, Doherty Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 12:10 to 1:19 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology/Seismology Building, Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Eunseo Choi, echoi@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8813

Thursday, January 28

School of Continuing Education Graduate Program Fair
Speakers: Various
Time: 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Low Memorial Library, The Rotunda
Contact: School of Continuing Education, ce-info@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ce.columbia.edu

Friday, January 29

CICR: Environment, Natural resources and Eco-tourism: Tools for Peace Building, State Building and Sustainable Development The Balkans in Focus, with Comparative Perspectives
Speakers: Various
Time: All Day Event
Location: Columbia Universiity, Morningside Campus, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Contact: Daniel Perdomo, dp2462@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?brand=sipa&id=37448&vt=detail&context=standalone#

LDEO Division of Ocean and Climate Physics (DOCP) Seminar: Radiative Feedbacks on Global Precipitation
Speaker: Michael Previdi, Doherty Associate Research Scientist, Climate Dynamics, Division of Ocean and Climate Physic (DOCP), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, Seminar Room, First Floor
Contact: Colin Kelley, cpk2111@columbia.edu

IRI Seminar: Application of RegCM3 in Regional Climate and Climate Change Studies over China
Speaker: Xuejie Gao, Chief Scientist, Beijing Climate Center
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building, Room 205
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu

CERC Information Session: Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U)
Speaker: Desmond Beirne, Program Coordinator, Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U), Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC)
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 1015
Contact: Desmond Beirne, djb2104@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-0149
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: Rupturing Continental Lithosphere in the Main Ethiopian Rift - A Hot Plume Meets a Cold Craton
Speaker: Simon Klemperer, Professor, Stanford University
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Scott Nooner, snooner@ldeo.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/news-events/earth-science-colloquium/2009-2010

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Tuesday, February 2

Earth Institute Practicum: Earth Institute Overview

CERC Information Session: Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U)

Friday, February 5

CERC Information Session: Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U)

Columbia Water Center & Earth and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series: The World’s Water Crisis - Peak Water and Moving To a Sustainable World

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium

Directions to Columbia University

Directions to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Featured Events

Wednesday, December 3

Office of Academic and Research Programs: Energy Efficiency—What Really Works?
Speakers: Bridgett Neely, Vice President of Energy Efficiency, New York City Economic Development Corporation; Lloyd Kass, Director, Energy Department, New York City Housing Authority;Jay Bhalla, President, Willdan Energy Solutions (aka Intergy Corporation); Moderated by Steve Cohen, Executive Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy & Environmental Policy Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Satow Room (5th Floor)
Contact: Amanda R. Christie, arc2140@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-3142
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Thursday, December 4

Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development: Ecosystems - Do We Need Them?
Speakers: Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor in Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology; Columbia University; Shahid Naeem, Director of Science, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation; Professor and Department Chair, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University; Marc Levy, Deputy Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Natalie Boelman, Storke-Doherty Lecturer, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Satow Room (5th Floor)
Contact: Scott Andrews, sandrews@ei.columbia.edu

This Week’s Event

Tuesday, November 25

IRI Seminar: The Muted Precipitation Increase in Global Warming Simulations: A Surface Evaporation Perspective
Speaker: Ingo Richter, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building - Room 205, Palisades, NY
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu

A Preview of Next Week’s Events

Monday, December 1

LDEO Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics Seminar Series: Can We Do Seismology With GPS?

MA in Climate and Society: Breaking the Ice - Carbon, Climate, and Change

Wednesday, December 3

LDEO Joint MG&G – SG&T 2008 Seminar Series: Marine Gas Hydrates in Thin Sands That Mop Up Biogenic Methane

LDEO Division of Geochemistry Seminar Series: Combined U-Series and Oxygen Isotope Chronology of a Mid-Pleistocene Lacustrine Sequence - the Amora Formation Dead Sea Basin, Israel

DEES Open Thesis Defense: Production and Climate Effects on Ice-Core Beryllium - 10

Office of Academic and Research Programs: Energy Efficiency—What Really Works?

Columbia Water Center Seminar Series: Global Drought: Analyses of Past, Present, and Future Drought

CSSR Fall Seminar Series: America for Americans - Immigration and the Politicizing of Genetics

Thursday, December 4

IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: The Continuum of Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns

Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development: Ecosystems - Do We Need Them?

MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Open House

MA in Climate and Society: How Certain Can We Be About Climate Change?

Friday, December 5

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: “Changing Dynamics of Tropical Deforestation and Atmospheric Carbon Emissions: Science Meets Policy”?

Directions to Columbia University

Directions to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Featured Events

Tuesday, October 28

Sachs Student Lecture: Progress and Challenges in the Millennium Villages
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: 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Miller Theatre
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, betsy@ei.columbia.edu
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Thursday, October 30

Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development: Seeding a Revolution to Meet Global Water Needs
Speakers: Upmanu Lall, Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics; Director, Columbia Water Center; Tanya Heikkila, Assistant Professor, School of International & Public Affairs; Associate Director, Columbia Water Center; Vijay Modi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center; Tim Huh, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Tobias Siegfried, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 569
Contact: Scott Andrews, sandrews@ei.columbia.edu

CSSR Fall Seminar Series: Doing the Right Thing Willingly - Using Insights of Behavioral Decision Research for Better Environmental Decisions
Speaker: Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business; Professor of Management and Psychology, Columbia University; Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) and Center for Decision Sciences (CDS)
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schapiro CEPSR Building, Davis Auditorium
Contact: Ossian Patrick Foley, opf1@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/upcoming_cssr_calendar.html

This Week’s Events

Monday, October 27

IRI Seminar: Verification of the First 10 years of African Regional Climate Outlook Forum Forecasts
Speaker: Simon Mason, IRI Research Scientist and Leader, Climate Program
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building - Room 205 Palisades, NY
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu

LDEO Geochemistry Division Seminar: The Deglacial Deep-Sea Ventilation Hypothesis - Where is the Carbonate Preservation Maximum?
Speaker: Figen Mekik, Associate Professor of Geology, Grand Valley State University
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, First Floor Seminar Room
Contact: David McGee, dmcgee@ldeo.columbia.edu

Tuesday, October 28

IRI Seminar Series on Impact Evaluation for Development Projects: Exploiting Panel Data for Ex-post Impact Evaluation
Speaker: Markus Goldstein, The Research Group, World Bank
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Auditorium, Palisades, NY
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://iri.columbia.edu/events/seminarseries

CIESIN Lecture: Will Climate Change Lead to More Conflict?
Speaker: Halvard Buhaug, Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, The International Peace Research Institute
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Marine Biology/ Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Jennifer Mulvey, jmulvey@ciesin.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8988

Sachs Student Lecture: Progress and Challenges in the Millennium Villages
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: 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Miller Theatre
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, betsy@ei.columbia.edu
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A LIVE from the NYPL Forum: Can the Economy Be Saved?
Speakers: Felix Rohatyn, Former US Ambassador to France; Former Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co., LLC; Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN SDecretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Charlie Rose, Journalist and Anchor of “Charlie Rose”
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: The New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (enter at 42nd Street)
Contact: New York public Library, live@nypl.org
Web Site: http://www.nypl.org/live

Wednesday, October 29

Office of Academic and Research Programs: The Use of Climate Information in the Tropics: Learning from Practice Brownbag
Speaker: Lareef Zubair, Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Time: 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, 801 International Affairs Building
Contact: Amanda Christie, arc2140@columbia.edu
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LDEO Geochemistry Division Seminar: Arsenic Cycling in Union Lake
Speaker: Alison R. Keimowitz, Postdoctoral Science Fellow, Columbia University
Time: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, First Floor Seminar Room
Contact: David McGee, dmcgee@ldeo.columbia.edu

IRI Special Seminar: Vector-borne Disease and Climate Change - The Example of Lyme Disease in Canada
Speaker: Nick H. Ogden, Foodborne, Waterborne & Zoonotic Infections Division, Public Health Agency of Canada
Time: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, mrf2102@columbia.edu

Thursday, October 30

DEES Thesis Proposal: Reconstructing Fluxes - Geochemical Constraints on Sedimentation Rates, Dust Fluxes and Hydrothermal Inputs
Speaker: David McGee, Postdoctoral Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont Campus, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, First Floor Seminar Room
Contact: Missy Pinckert, missy@ldeo.columbia.edu

IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: A framework to test and understand cloud-climate feedbacks in general circulation models
Speaker: Minghua Zhang, SUNY Stonybrook
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

Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development: Seeding a Revolution to Meet Global Water Needs
Speakers: Upmanu Lall, Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics; Director, Columbia Water Center; Tanya Heikkila, Assistant Professor, School of International & Public Affairs; Associate Director, Columbia Water Center; Vijay Modi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center; Tim Huh, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Tobias Siegfried, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 569
Contact: Scott Andrews, sandrews@ei.columbia.edu

CSSR Fall Seminar Series: Doing the Right Thing Willingly - Using Insights of Behavioral Decision Research for Better Environmental Decisions
Speaker: Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business; Professor of Management and Psychology, Columbia University; Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) and Center for Decision Sciences (CDS)
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Schapiro CEPSR Building, Davis Auditorium
Contact: Ossian Patrick Foley, opf1@columbia.edu
Web Site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/upcoming_cssr_calendar.html

Presidential Lecture: Climate, Oceans, Infectious Disease, and Human Health - The Saga of Cholera
Speaker: Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc.; and President and CEO of CosmosID, Inc.
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Teatro
Contact: University Programs and Events, events1@columbia.edu

Friday, October 31

LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: Global Modelling of Biogenic Organic Aerosol in Present and Future Climates
Speaker: Johann (Hans) Feichter, Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Time: 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Biology & Seismology Building, Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor
Contact: Veronica Lance, vlance@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8615

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: “Research Contributions to Management and Conservation at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Central Pacific.”
Speaker: Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
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/colloquium/2007-2008.html

A Preview of Next Week’s Events

Thursday, November 6

IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: On the Influence of Anthropogenic Forcings on Changes in the Stratospheric Mean Age

Earth Institute Seminars on Sustainable Development: Are We Running Out of Energy?

Friday, November 7

LDEO Earth Science Colloquium