PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: The Future of Carbon and Heat Uptake by the Ocean: Seeking Insight From the Ice Ages
May 3, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzHeat uptake by the ocean is slowing the greenhouse gas-driven warming of the atmosphere, and the ocean represents the dominant long-term sink for the carbon dioxide gas deriving from fossil fuel use. However, these beneficial roles of the ocean are…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: The Bonds We Make and the Bonds We Break; A Chemist’s View of How Metals Drive Biology
April 5, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzYou may have learned in high school that covalent combinations of the CHNOPS elements comprise nearly all of biology. However, it is the family of less abundant elements, particularly iron, manganese, cobalt and copper, that mediate the most important life…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Goldilocks in Byzantium – Did More Rain Help a Struggling Empire Survive the Arab-Islamic conquest?
March 8, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzJohn Haldon, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History. Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. The eastern Roman empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Lead Exposure and the Black-White Test Score Gap
February 9, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzWe consider a new source of racial disparities in test scores: African American students’ disproportionate exposure to environmental toxins, and, in particular, lead. Using a unique individual-level dataset of children’s preschool lead levels linked with future educational outcomes for children…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: The Des Moines Farming Corridor
December 15, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzDowntown Des Moines once lacking in its 9 to 5 downtown a residential presence, has been radically restructured through a process that I developed 25 years ago with the Des Moines Vision Plan of 1990. The plan has fostered the…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease
November 17, 2015 ・ Igor Heifetz“Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination” by Bryan Grenfell, Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Violent epidemics of childhood infections such as measles…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: CO2 Sequestration in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs
October 13, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzMichael Celia, Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Director, Program in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is the only currently available technology that can significantly reduce atmospheric carbon…
PEI Faculty Seminar Series Video: Expert Judgment and Uncertainty Quantification for Sea Level Rise
September 15, 2015 ・ Igor HeifetzMichael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Director, Center for Science Technology and Environmental Policy Structural uncertainty in models presents a longstanding obstacle to estimating future sea level rise. The model-based range of…
A Dangerous Moment for Climate Change and for Science
November 22, 2016 ・ Robert SocolowRobert Socolow on climate change as a risk management problem requiring immediate action.
