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://ampsweb.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/mission2014/
Mission 2014
Q and A Panel
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/