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CGCS-Related News and Events

Below is a sampling of news releases and other notices relating to CGCS participants and/or their research and outreach activities. Also shown below are examples of upcoming and previous lectures and events either sponsored by the CGCS, or involving CGCS participants, many of which were video-taped and can be viewed online.

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News Briefs, Notices, and Interviews

     [See also: Global Change Joint Program News]

• Thousands spend Saturday at MIT (and visit exhibit on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge)
  MIT News May 2, 2011

• Moving climate change regulation forward — U.S. chief climate negotiation, MIT panel examine the science and policy of global warming
  MIT News April 25, 2011

• Science and policy can catalyze each other, EPA head says [at the 2011 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture]
  MIT News April 22, 2011

• Study: U.S. drought risk to increase with climate change
  MIT News April 19, 2011

• Minor changes in precipitation may have major impact on groundwater supplies in arid regions
  MIT News December 6, 2010

• Food and Water
  MIT News November 24, 2010

• Study sees changing intensity of storms from warming
  MIT News October 26, 2010

• More hurricanes in greener seas?
  MIT News September 8, 2010

• The aerosols conundrum
  MIT News July 8, 2010

• 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
  MIT News June 7, 2010

• 3 Questions: John Marshall on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
  MIT News June 1, 2010

• Chisholm receives Agassiz Medal from National Academy of Sciences
  MIT News May 13, 2010

• Explained: Climate sensitivity
  MIT News March 19, 2010

• Weather in a Tank
  MIT News March 17, 2010

• Wind resistance
  MIT News March 12, 2010

• Explained: Radiative Forcing
  MIT News March 10, 2010

• Ancient hurricanes
  MIT News February 26, 2010

• Assessing the impact of 'Climategate'
  MIT News December 15, 2009

• Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says
  MIT News October 23, 2009

• How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
  MIT News October 2, 2009

• A hard rain's gonna fall
  MIT News August 18, 2009

• Greenhouse gases made visible
  MIT News June 22, 2009

• Climate change odds much worse than thought
  MIT News May 19, 2009

• New greenhouse gas identified
  MIT News March 11, 2009

• Children's book illuminates photosynthesis
  MIT News March 10, 2009

• Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again
  MIT News October 29, 2008

• Weather cycles: Group gears up for climate change awareness ride
  MIT News September 8, 2008

• MIT scientists fathom ecological niches of ocean microbes
  MIT News May 22, 2008

• Happy anniversary, Prochlorococcus
  MIT News May 21, 2008

• John Marshall elected Fellow of the Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK
  The Royal Society May 16, 2008

• Ed Boyle among seven from MIT newly elected to US National Academy of Sciences
  MIT News April 29, 2008

• Seafoam hits fan over hurricane research
  MIT News April 29, 2008

• Mapping Earth's soil moisture: Entekhabi to lead science team for NASA satellite mission
  MIT News April 28, 2008

• New MIT study validates hurricane prediction: Provides confirmation that climate change intensifies storms
  MIT News April 17, 2008

• News that oozes: Panelists tackle challenges of communicating climate change
  MIT News April 16, 2008

• Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, died
  MIT News April 16, 2008

• Marine bacteria's mealtime dash is a swimming success
  MIT News March 12, 2008

• Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria
  MIT News March 3, 2008

• Biofuels report warns of strain on water resources
  MIT News October 11, 2007

• New book: What We Know About Climate Change
  MIT Press October 2007

• Rafael Bras to receive AGU's Horton Medal
  MIT News October 17, 2007

• MIT research details parasitic battles
  MIT News September 5, 2007

• Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests
  MIT News March 29, 2007

• MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes
  MIT News March 29, 2007

• U.S. Congressional testimony on climate change by CGCS director
  House Committee on Ways and Means hearing (testimony) February 28, 2007

• Climate change: In my view &emdash; Carl Wunsch
  The Royal Society: Science Issues March, 2006

• New images capture virus in extraordinary detail
  MIT News February 8, 2006

• IPCC Report: Human activity fuels global warming
  MIT News February 2, 2007

• Measuring the uncertainty of climate change
  Technology Review February 2007

• Energy experts side with 'Truth'
  Technology Review September 27, 2006

• MIT team describes unique desert cloud forest
  MIT News September 6, 2006

• Human activity linked to rise in hurricanes
  MIT News May 31, 2006

• Engineering solutions in Louisiana
  MIT News April 26, 2006

• Hurriacane horror mostly bad luck - for now
  MIT News November 9, 2005

• Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming
  MIT News July 31, 2005

• Scientists give boost to climate change predictions
  MIT News July 28, 2005

• A tropical seesaw between drought and flooding
  MIT News January 31, 2005

• Food production in China could be increased with more irrigation
  MIT News January 20, 2005

• New center to study impact of ocean pathogens on human health
  MIT News April 23, 2004

• Hard-to-reach measurement now within grasp of scientists
  MIT News January 14, 2004

• Microbes' 'blueprints' promise insights into oceans
  MIT News August 13, 2003

• Mexico City's air pollution is focus of MIT-led research
  MIT News March 26, 2003

• Nobelists sound alarm on global environmental trends
  MIT News March 7, 2003

• Vegetation essential to balancing climate models
  MIT News March 3, 2003

• Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method
  MIT News November 6, 2002

• Team probes arsenic and old lakes
  MIT News August 29, 2002

• Oceans at risk if policy tool not restricted, researcher says
  MIT News October 24, 2001

• Greenhouse Gamble
  Living On Earth (National Public Radio) July 20, 2001

• New landscape erosion model includes effects of vegetation
  MIT News June 6, 2001

• Nature's atmospheric cleanser needs closer look, researchers find
  MIT News May 9, 2001

• Method helps reduce uncertainty of global climate prediction
  MIT News January 10, 2001

• MIT researchers help reduce uncertainty of global climate prediction
  MIT News December 15, 2000

• Commercial ocean fertilization: a wise use of scientific discovery?
  MIT News November 3, 1999

• MIT researcher uses simple ocean measurements to predict hurricane intensity
  MIT News October 13, 1999

• MIT study assesses effects of Kyoto Protocol: Indicates way to save 60 percent on controlling global warming
  MIT News Oct 6, 1999

• Chisholm: Don't muck around with oceans
  MIT News January 13, 1999

• MIT professor wins Clarke Prize for exception water research
  MIT News May 29, 1998

• MIT researcher says greenhouse effect could lead to more intense hurricanes
  MIT News March 31, 1998

• MIT researcher uses lightning as a framework for monitoring global atmospheric change
  MIT News February 17, 1998

• Ban on leaded gasoline cut ocean lead levels dramatically, research shows
  MIT News February 11, 1998

• Chisholm discusses value of ecosystem research
  MIT News October 25, 1995

• MIT's Mario Molina wins Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovery of ozone depletion
  MIT News October 11, 1995

• Harbor pollution may produce ozone
  MIT News March 8, 1995

• Natural Thermometer Put to Use
  MIT News November 12, 1992

• Eagleson Is 1992 Killian Awardee
  MIT News May 27, 1992

• Climate Experts Clash on Global Warming
  MIT Tech Talk June 13, 1990

• Is It Getting Hotter on Earth or What? (Debate Planned)
  MIT Tech Talk May 9, 1990

• Center for Global Change Opens
  MIT Tech Talk February 14, 1990

Events and Lectures sponsored by CGCS or involving CGCS participants    

     [See also: Global Change Joint Program Events Listing]

• Event: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
  Under the Dome: MIT Open House MIT Joint Program exhibit and activities
  Date: April 30, 2011
  MIT News: May 2, 2011
  


• Lecture: On the State of Environmental Protection in the Nation
  Speaker: Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Event: 2011 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: April 15, 2011
  MIT News: April 22, 2011
  Video: forthcoming


• Symposium: Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
  Event: MIT Joint Program Symposium
  Panelists: Kerry Emanuel, Ronald Prinn, Chris Knittel, Ernest Moniz, Sarah Slaughter; Moderator: John Reilly
  Date: April 21, 2011
  MIT News Coverage: April 25, 2011
  Video: MIT TechTV


• Symposium: The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: What Happened? Where do we go from Here
  Speakers: Eric Adams, Elixabeth Kujawinski, Alex Slocum, Jerry Milgram, Wyman Briggs, Earthea Nance, James Dien Bui, Nancy Leveson, Roland Pellenq, Kim Vandiver, Tom Malone; Moderators: Maria Zuber, Amy Glasmeier, Andrew Whittle
  Date: September 28, 2010
  MIT News: September 30, 2010
  Video: MIT World


• Lecture: On the Dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
  Speaker: David Marshall (University of Oxford)
  Event: Victor P. Starr Memorial Lecture
  Date: September 29, 2010
  


• Lecture: Geoengineering Climate on a Regional Scale
  Speaker: David Battisti (University of Washington)
  Event: 2010 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: May 7, 2010


• Forum: The Great Climategate Debate
  Speakers:
  • Kerry Emanuel, Breene M. Kerr Professor of Atmospheric Science, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
  • Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
  • Judith Layzer, Edward and Joyce Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
  • Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Dept. of Political Science, MIT, and Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Director, Center for Global Change Science, MIT
  • Henry Jacoby (Moderator), Professor of Management, Sloan School, and Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT
  Event: Climate Forum sponsored by School of Science, CGCS, EAPS, MITEI
  Date: December 10, 2009
  Video: MIT World

• Symposium: Engineering a Cooler Earth: Can We Do It? Should We Try?
  
  • Global Climate Change Impacts: Motivation for Geoengineering? (Thomas Karl, NOAA)
  • Climate Cooling Potential of Different Geoengineering Options (Tim Lenton, Univ. East Anglia, UK)
  • Developing Scientific and Geopolitical Criteria to Rank Geoengineering Schemes (Philip Boyd, Univ. Otago, NZ)
  • Using Aerosol Injections for Geoengineering (Joyce Penner, Univ. Michigan)
  • Climate Engineering with Aerosols—Predictable Consequences? (David Battisti, Univ. Washington)
  • The Case for Geoengineering Research (David Keith, Univ. Calgary, CA)
  • Historical Perspectives on “Fixing the Sky” (James Fleming, Colby College)
  • What’s the "Rational" Choice?: Risk, Values and the Politics of Geoengineering (Judy Layzer, MIT)
  • Geoengineering Governance: Rendering the Possible Impossible? (Catherine Redgewell, Univ. College London)
  • Do We Understand the System? The Problem of Observation (Carl Wunsch, MIT)
  • All-Speaker Roundtable (moderated by Kerry Emanuel, MIT)
  • A Journalist's Perspective (Cornelia Dean, New York Times)
  • Setting the New Research Agenda (Dara Entekhabi, MIT)
  Event: 2009 ESI/MITEI/CGCS Symposium
  Date: October 30, 2009
  Video: MIT TechTV
  Presentations: Speaker Slides
  

• Lecture: Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains
  Speaker: Lonnie Thompson (Ohio State University and Byrd Polar Research Center)
  Event: 2009 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: May 1, 2009
  

• Lecture: Planet Water: Complexity and Organization in Earth System
  Speaker: Rafel Bras (University of California, Irvine)
  Event: 2008-2009 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award Lecture
  Date: March 30, 2009
  Video: MIT World

• Symposium: A Symposium to Honor Edward N. Lorenz
  
  • A Lorenzian Perspective on Weather and Climate Prediction: Towards the Probabilistic Earth-System Model (Timothy N. Palmer)
    
  • Ed Lorenz's Contributions to our Understanding of the General Circulation (Richard S. Lindzen)
    
  • Edward Lorenz and Chaotic Dynamics (Mitchell J. Feigenbaum)
    
  Date: September 13, 2008
  Video: EAPS web

• Lecture: Global and Regional Climate Change: Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles
  Speaker: Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
  Event: 2008 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: May 2, 2008
  Video: MIT World

• Syposium Earth System Revolutions: Key Turning Points in the History of our Planet
  
  • Electrons, Life and the Evolution of the Oxygen Cycle on Earth (Paul Falkowski)
    
  • From Rocks to Genes and Back: Stories about the Evolution of Photosynthesis (Dianne Newman)
    
  • Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security (Daniel Pauly)
    
  • Climate Variability and Change and their Impact on the Global Harvest (Cynthia Rosenzweig)
    
  • Anthropogenic Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy (Ronald Prinn)
    
  • Whales to Wood: Wood to Coal/Oil: What's Next? (Daniel Nocera)
    
  • Solar Energy as a Major Replacement for Fossil Fuel (Roger Angel)
    
  • Geosciences and Carbon Sequestration to Address Climate Change (Margaret Leinen)
    
  • Earth Systems Engineering and Management (Braden Allenby)
  Speakers: See agenda for details
  Event: 2007 CGCS/ESI Symposium
  Date: October 9, 2007
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Uncertainties in Climate Forecasts: Causes, Magnitudes and Policy Implications
  Speaker: Stephen H. Schneider (Stanford University)
  Event: 2007 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: April 25, 2007
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Climate Change and the The Challenge of Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
  Speaker: Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
  Event: MIT Museum Soapbox
  Date: October 18, 2006
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: The Invisible Forest: Microbes in the Sea
  Speaker: Penny Chisholm (MIT)
  Event: MIT Museum Soapbox
  Date: November 25, 2006
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Climate and Energy: Uncertainties in Forecasts and the Problems of Scale
  Speaker: Ronald Prinn (MIT)
  Event: MIT Energy Short Course
  Date: June 6, 2006
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Changes in the Land: Environmental Stresses and the Terrestrial Biosphere's Capacity to Store Carbon
  Speaker: Jerry M. Melillo (The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory)
  Event: 2006 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: May 18, 2006
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present and Future Risks Associated with Hurricanes
  Speaker: Kerry Emanuel (MIT)
  Event: MIT Response to Hurrucane Katrina
  Date: October 31, 2005
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: How Can We Plan for Safe and Sustainable Regions?
  Speaker: Chiang Mei (MIT)
  Event: MIT Response to Hurrucane Katrina
  Date: October 18, 2005
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Marine Microbes: Tiny Cells, Global Impact
  Speaker: Penny Chisholm (MIT)
  Event: Interdisciplinary Research at MIT: Making Uncommon Connections
  Date: May 3, 2005
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Vegetation Dynamics and the Earth System
  Speaker: Martin Claussen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
  Event: 2005 Henry Kendall Memorial Lecture
  Date: April 7, 2005
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: Peace and Chemistry Global Environmental Issues: Effects on the Atmosphere and the Biosphere
  Speaker: Mario Molina (MIT)
  Event: Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series
  Date: March 6, 2003
  Video: MIT World

• Lecture: From Complex Science to Contentious Policy: Lessons from Global Warming
  Speaker: Ronald Prinn (MIT)
  Event: Technology Day 2002
  Date: June 8, 2002
  Video: MIT World

    For further information contact the CGCS office (cgcs@mit.edu).

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