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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 past lectures and events that were either sponsored by the CGCS, or involved CGCS participants, which were video-taped and can be viewed online.

News Briefs, Notices, and Interviews

     [See also: Global Change Joint Program News Briefs]

• 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    

• 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: [forthcoming]

• 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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