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The Earth Institute at Columbia University weeks events
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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
RSVP: Register
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
RSVP: Register
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
RSVP: Register
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
All events are open to the public unless otherwise noted. For specific details on these events, visit the Earth Institute Calendar of Events
