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Thursday, September 4
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Theoretical Earthquake Nucleation with Applications to Episodic Slow Slip Events
Speaker: Allan M. Rubin, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton 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, September 5
LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: From Genomics to Geochemistry - New Tales and Enduring Mysteries in Microbial Oceanography
Speaker: Sonya Dyhrman, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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: Hubbert’s Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change
Speaker: David Rutledge, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Electrical Engineering; Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
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
Wednesday, September 10
Undergraduate Special Concentration in Sustainable Development Information Session
Speaker: Kevin Griffin, Interim Program Director, Undergraduate Special Concentration in Sustainable Development; Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Time: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Building and room to be announced
Contact: Ali Frohman, afrohman@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-5193
RSVP: Register
IRI Seminar: Poverty Reduction at Risk in Ethiopia
Speaker: William Dougherty, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute - US Center
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont Campus,
Monell Building Auditorium
Contact: IRI Seminars, seminars@iri.columbia.edu
Web Site: http://iri.columbia.edu
CERC Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U) Program Open House
Speakers: Various
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation,
Shermerhorn Extension,
10th Floor
Contact: Desmond Beirne, djb2104@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-0149
Web Site: http://www.cerc.columbia.edu/education_seeu.html
Thursday, September 11
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: The Global Atmospheric Circulation in Isentropic Coordinates
Speaker: Olivier M. Pauluis, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, New York 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, September 12
Wally’s Friday Seminar: Eastern Mediterranean-North Eastern Sahara Paleoclimate - Implications of the Speleothems and the Marine Records
Speaker: Mira Bar- Matthews, Geological Survey of Israel
Time: 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Colmbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building,
First Floor Seminar Room
Contact: Wallace S. Broecker, broecker@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8413
LDEO Division of Biology and Paleo Environment Seminar Series: The Last Deglaciation - A Direct Land-sea Correlation from a Marine Pollen Record off SE United States
Speaker: Stephanie Desprat, Comer Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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
Wednesday, September 17
Millennium Villages Seminar Series: The Millennium Villages Project - Tropical Agriculture
Speaker: Pedro Sanchez, Director, Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Davis Auditorium,
Schapiro CEPSR Building
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, ei-students@ei.columbia.edu
Thursday, September 18
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Fellows' Presentations
Speakers: Ben Diehl and Brice Loose, Columbia 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/
Undergraduate Special Concentration in Sustainable Development Information Session
Speaker: Kevin Griffin, Interim Program Director, Undergraduate Special Concentration in Sustainable Development; Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Time: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Building and room to be announced
Contact: Ali Frohman, afrohman@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-5193
RSVP: Register
Friday, September 19
IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing
Speakers: Various
Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont Campus,
Monell Auditorium
Contact: Maria Rise C Fullon, rfullon@iri.columbia.edu
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: Ajit Subramaniam, Doherty Associate Research Scientist, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
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
Tuesday, September 23
Modern Slavery: A Panel Discussion with Freed African Slaves and Freedom Award Winners
Speakers: James Kofi Annan, 2008 Templeton Freedom Award Winner; Ricky Richards, 2008 Templeton Freedom Award Winner; Jolene Smith, Executive Director, Free the Slaves, Washington, D.C.
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 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
Thursday, September 25
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Amplification of the 'Dust Bowl' Drought Through Human Induced Land Degradation
Speaker: Benjamin I. Cook, NOAA Global Change Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), The Earth Institute at Columbia 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, September 26
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium: "Grand Cycles" of the Milankovitch Band: Geological Interferometer for the Long-Term Behavior of the Solar System
Speaker: Paul Olsen, Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor, Columbia University
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
Thursday, October 2
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Melting at the Core-Mantle Boundary and the Structure of the Ultralow Velocity Zone
Speaker: Sash Majumder, University of Maryland
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 3
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: George Kling, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
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 4
LDEO Annual Open House
Speakers: Various
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Contact: LDEO Events, events@ldeo.columbia.edu or call (845) 365-8998
Web Site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu
Monday, October 6
MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Open House
Speaker: Steve Cohen, Director, MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, Executive Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
1512 International Affairs Building
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, ei-students@ei.columbia.edu
Tuesday, October 7
Office of Academic and Research Programs: Malcolm Pirnie Information Session
Speaker: James M. Callahan, PE, Manager, Building Design Department, Malcolm Pirnie
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
International Affairs Building,
Room 1118
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, en2109@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2525
RSVP: Register
Thursday, October 9
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Modern Weather Forecasting: A Status Report and Scientific Opportunities
Speaker: Lance Bosart, Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany
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 10
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: Andrew Revkin, Senior Science Writer, The New York Times
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
Thursday, October 16
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Melting and Melting Migration in a Heterogeneous Mantle
Speaker: Dr. 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
Speaker: Rebecca Morss, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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
Monday, October 20
Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House
Speakers: Various
Time: 4:00 to 7:00 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/50
Tuesday, October 21
EcoSecurities Information Session
Speakers: Alison Carr (SIPA '05), US Marketing Manager, Commercialization Manager, EcoSecurities; Jonathan Rappe, Head of Investment, EcoSecurities
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
International Affairs Building,
Lindsay Rogers Room
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, betsy@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2525
RSVP: Register
Wednesday, October 22
Carbon Sequestration Panel
Speakers: Klaus Lackner, Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy; Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering; Professor of Earth and Enviromental Sciences; Jurg Matter, Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Alissa Park, Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science; Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
Time: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schapiro CEPSR Building,
Davis Auditorium
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, betsy@ei.columbia.edu
Thursday, October 23
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium
Speaker: Alissa Park, Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science; Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia 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
Millennium Villages Seminar Series: The Millennium Villages Project - Improving the Health of the Developing World
Speaker: Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schapiro CEPSR Building,
Davis Auditorium
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, betsy@ei.columbia.edu
Friday, October 24
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: Richard Allen, Assistant Professor, Seismological Laboratory, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
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
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: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Miller Theatre
Contact: Office of Academic and Research Programs, betsy@ei.columbia.edu
Thursday, October 30
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: On the Cause of Double Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in Coupled Atmosphere-ocean 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
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
Friday, October 31
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
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
Thursday, November 6
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: On the Influence of Anthropogenic Forcings on Changes in the Stratospheric Mean Age
Speaker: Luke D. Oman, Johns Hopkins 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, November 7
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: Madeleine Thomson, Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), The Earth Institute of Columbia University
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
Wednesday, November 12
Office of Academic and Research Programs: Environmental Engineering Career Panel
Speakers: Various
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR),
InterSchool Lab (Room 750)
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, betsy@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2525
RSVP: Register
Web Site: http://earth.columbia.edu/education
Thursday, November 13
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Peter Huybers, Harvard 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, November 14
LDEO Earth Science Colloquium
Speaker: Daniel Fornari, Senior Scientist, Department of Geology and Geophysics; Director, Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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
Wednesday, November 19
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Information Session
Speakers: Various
Time: 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Columbia University,
Morningside Campus,
building and room to be announced
Contact: Betsy Ness-Edelstein, betsy@ei.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2525
RSVP: Register
Thursday, November 20
IGERT Joint Program Fall 2008 Colloquium
Speaker: Paul O'Gorman, MIT
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
Thursday, December 4
IGERT Joint Program Fall Colloquium: Convectively coupled equatorial waves and the MJO
Speaker: Zhiming Kuang, Harvard 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
