Seminars you should attend

Next Tuesday Feb 9, 6:00-7:30PM, Jim Hansen will speak about ‘Climate Change and Energy:  How can justice be achieved for young people and nature?’  Hansen is the former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the first prominent US scientist to testify before Congress, in the 1980’s, about global warming.  Sponsored by  Rutgers Insitute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science and the office of the Cook Campus Dean.  Cook Student Center.  More info and registration at http://sebsnjaes250.rutgers.edu/anthropocene/

Thursday Feb 25, 7PM, Dan Fagin will speak about ‘Connecting the Dots in Toms River and Beyond’ with Kate John-Alder, SEBS Dept of Landscape Architecture. Fagin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and on the faculty at NYU.  His book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, is about the dumping of industrial pollutants by chemical companies and the investigations of the cancer cluster that arose in Toms River.  Sponsored by the School of Public Health, the Bloustein School, and the office of the Cook Campus Dean.  Institute for Food Nutrition & Health Rm 101. Reception and book signing to follow.  More info and registration at http://sebsnjaes250.rutgers.edu/anthropocene/dan-fagin.html