Room Schedule

TONIGHT32-123: 5-midnight 32-155: 9-midnight

TUESDAY32-123: 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

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 DevelopmentParadox of Agricultural SubsidiesAgricultural 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 AmericaEast AfricaNew England

• PhD in Biology from McGill University• Research in:

landscape Development Sustainable agriculture Aquatic ecosystemsField ConservationScience Education for Under-Served Communities

Catherine Badgley

•Evolutionary Biologist, University of Michigan•PhD Yale University •Current Research on:

Impact of Agriculture on BiodiversityAlternates to the Current Food SystemBenefits and Feasibility of Organic Farming on the Global ScaleSustainable Agriculture

•President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eeb/people/cbadgley/