Energy, Prices and the Influence of Middle East Oil Producers
Speaker: Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University This talk will explore the role and power of the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, especially that of Saudi Arabia, in the world's energy markets and the geopolitics of…
Air travel Demand and Income: Empirical Investigation and Future Scenarios
Speakers: Shoibal Chakravarty and Massimo Tavoni, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Global demand for air transport has been characterized by a steady and rapid growth in the past 20 years, at a rate roughly 50% higher than that of economic…
First-Principles Materials Design for Energy Conversion and Conservation
Speaker: Emily Carter, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Exploring Climate-Carbon Cycle Interactions with the Earth System Models
Speaker: Elena Shevliakova, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Changes in climate have potential to affect the global carbon cycle through changes in ecosystems distribution and functioning. While considerable attention has been devoted…
Global Warming and the New Political Landscape
Speaker: Michael Oppenheimer, Department of Geosciences and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - How does the US election affect prospects for US action on climate change? How does the global financial crisis and economic downturn factor into the political equation? …
Ocean Acidification
Speaker: Francois Morel, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University The dissolution of anthropogenic CO2 increases the dissolved CO2 concentration of surface seawater, decreases its pH, and decreases the saturation of calcium carbonate. All three processes, described collectively under the the expression…
Implications of Allocation Emissions at the Individual Level Primary tabs View(active tab) Edit Manage display
Speaker: Robert Socolow, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco on March 1, 1941. He attended St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California and received both an MA and PhD in English from Stanford University. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at…
Sustainable South Bronx
Speaker: Majora Carter- Activist for environmental justice Majora Carter redefined the field of environmental equality, starting in the South Bronx at the turn of the century. Now she is leading the local economic development movement across the USA.
