Tuesday, 10 Sep 2013
Iowa NSF EPSCoR energy policy seminar series
"Forecasting Supply and Demand Balance in California's Cap and Trade Market," James Bushnell, University of California, Davis.
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
"New Insights on the Madden-Julia Oscillation from the DYNAMO project" by Dick Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
A Call to Climate Action: Our New National Purpose
Rob Hogg is a state senator from Cedar Rapids and author of the new book America's Climate Century. In the book he argues that everything Americans do this century will be shaped by the need to reduce carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases while at the same time dealing with an increasing number of climate-related disasters.
What's Going On in Egypt?
Mahmoud Hamad is a faculty member in the Politics Department at Drake University and taught previously at Cairo University in Egypt. His teaching and research interests focus on Middle East politics, comparative judicial politics, civil-military relations as well as religion and politics.