Past Events
September 08, 2011
Speaker: Edward F. Kiczek
Global Business Director, Hydrogen Energy Systems Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
August 03, 2011
Timescales and Processes in Climate Change: Transience, Persistence, and Irreversibility, and the Surprising Roles of Different Gases
Special seminar, sponsored by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
August 02, 2011
Impacts of Meteorology-Driven Seed Dispersal on Plant Migration: Implications for Future Vegetation Structure under Changing Climates
Chair of the Defense: Prof. Ronald G. Prinn (MIT)
Thesis Committee: Prof. Ronald G. Prinn (Thesis advisor, MIT) Prof. Elfatih Eltahir (MIT) Dr. Mick Follows (MIT) Dr. Jerry Melillo (Marine Biological Laboratory) Prof. A. David McGuire (U of Alaska, Fairbanks) Dr. C. Adam Schlosser (MIT)
July 27, 2011
Nitrous oxide (N2O) isotopic composition in the troposphere: instrumentation, observations at Mace Head, Ireland, and regional modeling
A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate.
THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Shuhei Ono (MIT) Dr. Eric Davidson (Woods Hole Research Center) Dr. Peter Simmonds (Univ. of Bristol, U.K.)
June 22, 2011 - June 24, 2011
SESSIONS: The Scientific Evidence for Environmental Change; Energy Security; Managing Agricultural Resources; Managing the Threats to Ecosystems; Environmental Change and the Future of Cities; The Road From Cancun