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Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries from Acasta gneiss to Zircon this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will delight rockhounds and word lovers alike. Geoscientists are magpies for words, and with good reason. The sheer profusion of ....
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I What on Earth Have We Done?” for the first in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human Values. The second lecture will be held Friday, April 29. This event will be livestreamed via Princeton's Media Central Live and held in-person in the Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101. Registration is REQUIRED for in-person attendance and is free and open to members of the public who are fully immunized against COVID-19. For the first lecture, Kolbert will discuss the ways humans are changing the world on a geological scale, with a focus on changes to the atmosphere, ocean chemistry, and the rearrangement of the biosphere. She will be joined in discussion by geologist and science writer Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University, and Arun Majumdar, the Jay Precourt Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Ho ....
Tanner Lectures on Human Values ABSTRACT: Elizabeth Kolbert's first lecture will look at the ways humans are changing the world on a geological scale. In this talk, she will focus on changes to the atmosphere, changes to the chemistry of the oceans, and the rearrangement of the biosphere. Elizabeth Kolbert is an award-winning journalist and author, best known for her groundbreaking work on climate change and the environment. What began with her travels from Alaska to Greenland and interviews with top scientists to get to the heart of the debate over global warming has grown into an ongoing effort to bring the plight of our planet into the consciousness of the American people through her articles and books. <br /> <br /> Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, Kolbert’s original series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” won a National Magazine Award and became the book “Field Notes from a Catastrophe.” The Pulitzer ....
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