PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Mathematical Ecology: A Century of Progress, and Challenges for the Next Century
LENGTH ・ 00:59:03NSpring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 4/4/2017 Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The subject of theoretical ecology is an old and productive one, and has helped in the management…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: The Outsized Role of the Southern Ocean in the Regulation of Carbon, Heat, and Biological Productivity
LENGTH ・ 01:01:21Spring 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 2/7/2017 Jorge Sarmiento, George J. Magee Professor of Geosciences and Geological Engineering. Director, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling. Director, Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. The Southern Ocean accounts for…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Probabilistic Coastal Hazards Mapping for the US
LENGTH ・ 00:53:13Improving coastal resiliency, and the adoption of natural infrastructure as part of a multiple lines of defense strategy, relies on effective coastal flood hazards and risk assessment and risk management. Current flood hazards maps do not adequately consider geomorphological,…
Climate Change: A Scientist’s Perspective
LENGTH ・ 01:11:25Earth’s climate is changing, as can be seen from measurements of rising air and water temperatures, decreasing amounts of polar ice and rising sea levels worldwide over the past three decades. Human-caused increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, chiefly…
Balancing Risks: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
LENGTH ・ 00:55:38In Balancing Risks: Nuclear Energy & Climate Change, Socolow and Glaser discuss the concept of stabilization wedges, which are defined as strategies motivated by climate change and designed to prevent its full impact by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A major focus…
Breaking the Impasse Between the United States and China on Climate Change
LENGTH ・ 00:52:14Kelly Sims Gallagher, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy. Kelly Sims Gallagher is Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. She directs the Center for International…
Copenhagen: The Sound and the Fury, Signifying…?
LENGTH ・ 01:04:00Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School…
Alternative Approaches to Carbon Capture and Storage at Existing Coal Power Plant Sites
LENGTH ・ 00:28:15Robert H. Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University. He graduated from Yale University with a BS in physics in 1962, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD, in theoretical plasma…
