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Room Schedule. TONIGHT 32-123: 5-midnight 32-155: 9-midnight. TUESDAY 32-123: 5-midnight 32-155: 9-midnight. Presentation : Wednesday, December 1, 7-10pm Stata Center, 32-123 Reception follows Webcast: http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/mission2014/. Mission 2014 Q and A Panel.
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Room Schedule TONIGHT 32-123: 5-midnight 32-155: 9-midnight TUESDAY 32-123: 5-midnight 32-155: 9-midnight
Presentation:Wednesday, December 1, 7-10pmStata Center, 32-123Reception follows Webcast: http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/mission2014/
William Moomaw • Professor of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University • Founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy • Founding director of the Tufts Climate Initiative • Works on climate change, energy policy, nitrogen pollution, forestry financing and management and on theoretical topics such as the Environmental Kuznets Curve • Co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute • Lead author of 4 IPCC reports, including the 2001 report on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. http://fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/moomaw/default.shtml
Dara Entekhabi • MIT Course 1 Professor • Specializing in Hydrology and Remote Sensing • Director of the Earth System Initiative • Director of the Parsons lab for Environmental Science and Engineering • NASA-Funded research on Global Soil Moisture • Current Research on: • Land Water Evaporation Retrieval • Surface Water-Groundwater Interaction • Hillslope Hydrology
Tim Wise • Director of the Research and Policy Program for the Global Development and Environmental Institute • Leader of the Globalization and Sustainable Development Program • Current Research Focusing on: • Sustainable Rural Development • Paradox of Agricultural Subsidies • Agricultural Trade Liberalization http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01136
Mark Chandler • Conservation Biologist • International Director of EarthWatch Institute • Extensive field experience in • Central and South America • East Africa • New England • PhD in Biology from McGill University • Research in: • landscape Development • Sustainable agriculture • Aquatic ecosystems • Field Conservation • Science Education for Under-Served Communities
Catherine Badgley • Evolutionary Biologist, University of Michigan • PhD Yale University • Current Research on: • Impact of Agriculture on Biodiversity • Alternates to the Current Food System • Benefits and Feasibility of Organic Farming on the Global Scale • Sustainable Agriculture • President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eeb/people/cbadgley/