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Distinguished FacultyTalk Series: Who to Thank For The Air We Breathe?
| Synopsis: |
In this lecture, I will explore what we know and surprisingly, what we don’t know, about the rise of oxygen on Earth, how the gas changed the evolution of life on the planet, and how we use our understanding of the gas to guide us in the discovery of life on planets far outside of our solar system. |
| Start Time: |
Monday, December 7, 2009 3:30 PM |
| End Time: |
Monday, December 7, 2009
5:00 PM
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| Location: |
Mclaren Center For Ceramic Research |
| Address: |
607 Taylor Road |
| Campus: |
Busch |
| Room: |
Fiber Optic Auditorium |
| City, State, Country: |
Piscataway,
NJ US
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| Fee: |
none |
| Speaker: |
Dr. Paul Falkowski |
| Sponsor: |
Office of Vice President for Research |
| Category: |
Talk, Lecture, Seminar |
| Web Site: |
http://vpr.rutgers.edu/events.php |
| Contact Name: |
Rennie |
| Contact Email: |
vpr-admin@orsp.rutgers.edu |
| Contact Phone: |
(732) 932-1500 |
| Special Criteria: |
none |
| Additional Information: |
Paul G. Falkowski is Board of Governors’ Professor in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Rutgers University. His scientific interests include evolution, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, and symbiosis. His current research efforts are directed towards understanding the co-evolution of biological and physical systems.
Dr. Falkowski earned his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees from the City College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Rhode Island, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1976 as a scientist in the newly formed Oceanographic Sciences Division. He served as head of the division from 1986 to 1991 and deputy chair in the Department of Applied Science from 1991-1995, responsible for the development and oversight of all environmental science programs. In 1996, he was appointed as the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia. He moved to Rutgers University in 1998. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992; the Huntsman Medal in 1998; the Hutchinson Prize in 2000; and the Vernadsky medal from the European Geosciences Union in 2007. In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; in 2002, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2007, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences; and in 2008, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
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