STEM Ed Announcement: Lectures on Sustainability and the Environment

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a free UMass Amherst program.
Contact information is below.
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Lectures on Sustainability and the Environment


April 24, 2010: The Daffodil Lectures on Sustainability and the Environment
will feature UMass Amherst Distinguished Professor Raymond Bradley, Pace
University Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding Andrew Revkin,
University of Florida Professor of Religion and Nature Bron Taylor, and
UMass Amherst Professor of Geosciences Julie Brigham-Grette. 

The lectures are free and open to the public at 3:00 pm in auditorium 135 of
the UMass Amherst Integrated Sciences Building, located at 661 North
Pleasant Street, and will be immediately followed by a reception at 5:00 pm.
Parking is available next to the building. 


The Daffodil Lecturers will share their insights and experience on
environmental issues and challenges.

Raymond Bradley has more than 30 years of experience in research on climate
variations and has been an advisor to various government and international
agencies, including the World Bank, U.S., Swiss, Swedish, German and U.K.
national science foundations, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, the National Research Council, the Inter-Governmental Panel
on Climate Change, the U.S.-Russia Working Group on Environmental Protection
and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. He has testified before
the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and has
briefed congressional staff members and Gov. Deval Patrick on global warming
issues. 

Andrew C. Revkin is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at
Pace Universitys Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and has covered
environmental issues in prize-winning coverage for newspapers and magazines
for nearly a quarter of a century as well as on his blog, Dot Earth. His
central focus since the 1980s has been the science and significance of
global warming. His reporting on the issue has taken him from the North Pole
to the White House to the Amazon. He has written books on the Amazon rain
forest, global warming and the Arctic. 

Bron Taylor is professor of religion and nature at the University of
Florida. He is also an affiliated scholar with the Center for Environment
and Development at Oslo University. As an interdisciplinary environmental
studies scholar trained in ethics, religious studies and social scientific
approaches to understanding human culture, Taylors work engages the quest
for environmentally sustainable societies. His award-winning Encyclopedia of
Religion and Nature is considered a benchmark in the study of the affective
and spiritual dimensions of the human place in nature. 

Julie Brigham-Grette is a member of the Climate System Research Center at
UMass and has conducted research in the Arctic for 30 years, including eight
field seasons in remote parts of northeast Russia. Her research focus is on
Arctic marine and terrestrial paleoclimate records, especially in the Bering
Strait.

More information:

www.honors.umass.edu/smith