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Distinguished Lecturer Series 2018-2019

Date Place & Time Speaker Title
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Scot Martin, Harvard University Atmospheric Chemistry and Anthropogenic Influence over the Amazon Tropical Forest:  The Green Ocean Amazon
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Phillippe Tortel, UBC Ships, Satellites, Super- Computers and Social Media: How We Understand Climate Change In the Arctic
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Joseph Kirschvink, Caltech Earth’s First Snowball, and the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. David Beerling, Sheffield Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Kent Moore, UTM Recent Extreme Events in the Arctic:  Collapsing Ice Arches and New Polynyas
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 Davis Building, UTM, Rm 3129, 12:00 Noon Aaron Berg, Univ. of Guelph Global Observations of frozen Soils:  Methods and Applications
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018 Bahen Centre,BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Joseph Berry, Carnegie Inst of Washington Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis at the Landscape Scale
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 Bahen Centre,BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Roisin Commane, Columbia University Data-constrained annual carbon fluxes and boreal ecosystems:combining airborne, tower and remote sensing measurements
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019 Bahen Centre,BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Elsie Sunderland, Harvard University Linking Global Contaminant Releases to Health in an Era of Environmental Change
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 Bahen Centre,BA1190, 4:00 P.M. William D’Andrea, Columbia University An Arctic Perspective on Holocene Climate Change
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 UTSC, AA160,       4:00 P.M. Edgar Hertwich, Yale University Does Recycling Help the Climate?
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Ed Brook, Oregon State Univ. A Million Year History of Atmospheric Methane: Implications for Future Changes
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Lab. Carbon cycle climate feedbacks learned from satellite observations
Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2019 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Sandy Harrison, Reading What have we learnt from palaeoclimate observations and simulations?
Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019 Bahen Centre, BA1190, 4:00 P.M. Mick Follows, MIT The macro-molecular and elemental composition of marine phytoplankton