Campus visit by noted climatologist, Dr. Michael Mann (Penn State), February, 2006. Dr. Mann, the author of the notable “hockey-stick” diagram paper on the record of climate for the past millennium, delivered a pair of public lectures and conducted classroom visits.
Campus visit by renowned marine geologist Dr. Orrin Pilkey (Duke University), October, 2006. Dr. Pilkey, a noted advocate for a natural approach to management of the shoreline, delivered a public lecture, visited classrooms, and participated in a field trip to the Lake Ontario shore.
Campus visit by Dr. Chris Scholz (Syracuse University), March, 2007. Dr. Scholz, a specialist in lacustrine and rift-basin sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, described his research on the long-term climate record available from cores drilled in Lake Malawi, East Africa.
Campus visit by Dr. Don Winkelmann, Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, April 2007. Don Winklemann, former chairman of the technical advisory committee for the Consultative Group on International Research visited campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visitng Fellow. Dr. Winkelmann is a premier expert in his area of international agricultural and development issues. In addition to delivering the keynote lecture for the 2nd Annual Le Moyne College Justice Conference, Dr. Winkelmann also met with classes during the week.
Campus visit by Ecologist Sylan Kaufman, Conservation Curator at the Adkins Arboretum, October 12, 2007. Dr. Kaufman described the role and problems of non-native plant species in her talk, "Plants Gone Wild."
FOCUS THE NATION
On January 31st, 2008, Le Moyne participated in Focus the Nation, a national day-long symposium for discussing the impact of global climate change, its causes, and possible solutions. The daytime events on the Le Moyne campus featured an opening address by Congressman Jim Walsh, meetings and panel discussions of the Student Environmental Coalition and the Greening Le Moyne Group Initiative, student and faculty presentations on climate and religion and the economics of energy resources, and an encore presentation of An Inconvenient Truth. The evening event featured the premier of Le Moyne on Ice, a documentary on Le Moyne's research program in Iceland, and a keynote lecture by noted climatologist Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State University. The event was Regional Applied research, the Le Moyne lectures Committee, the O'Connell Professorship, and a generous grant from HSBC.
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