Serving Eastern Massachusetts
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society [GRS-029]
6:00 PM, Friday, 11 May
New Observational Challenges in Climate Feedbacks and Irreversibility: The Union of Remote and In Situ Strategies
With the rapid loss of the Arctic Ice Cap has come a cascade of climate feedbacks. These feedbacks involve the release of methane and carbon dioxide from the clathrates and permafrost of the Arctic basin, the flow of heat into the Greenland glacial system, the increased forcing of the climate system that instigates an increase in intensity and frequency of severe storms over the US that convectively inject water deep into the stratosphere initiating an increased risk of catalytic destruction of ozone in the summer months. This coupled system is viewed from the perspective of new observing systems designed to dissect the mechanisms that control the feedbacks that set the time scale for irreversibility.
Jim
Anderson joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1978 as the Robert
P. Burden Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry; in 1982 he was appointed
the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry. Professor
Anderson served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Biology from July 1998 through June 2001.
The Anderson research group addresses three domains in the physical sciences: (1) mechanistic links between chemistry, radiation, and dynamics in the atmosphere that control climate (2) chemical catalysis sustained by free radical chain reactions that dictate the macroscopic rate of chemical transformation in Earth’s stratosphere and troposphere; and (3) chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals and reactivities of radical-radical and radicle-molecule systems.
Anderson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a frequent contributor to National Research Council Reports. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship; the E.O. Lawrence Award in Environmental Science and Technology; the American Chemical Society’s Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest; and the University of Washington’s Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award. In addition, he received the United Nations Vienna Convention Award for Protection of the Ozone Layer in 2005; The United Nations Earth Day International Award in 2007; Harvard University’s 1989 Ledlie Prize for Most Valuable Contribution to Science by a Member of the Faculty; and the American Chemical Society’s National Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology.
This meeting will be held at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Cafeteria, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA. For more information, please contact William Blackwell wjb@ll.mit.edu
Nuclear and Plasma Science, Antennas & Propagation, Communications, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Societies
4:00 PM, *Fridays, April 6, 13, 20, and 27
Controlled study of space plasma turbulence and effects on satellite and radio communications, using radars, GPS satellites, and optical instruments
(Please Note: This a multi-session chapter meeting )
A series of lectures will be delivered for one and half hours each on the subjects of "Controlled study of space plasma turbulence and effects on satellite and radio communications, using radars, GPS satellites, and optical instruments".
Location: Boston University Photonics Center, PHO 211, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215.
For more information, please contact Min-Chang Lee at mclee@mit.edu