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Dreyfus Symposium, streaming video

Climate, Energy, and the Changing Environment: A Dreyfus Foundation Symposium on Environmental Chemistry Research was held in New York City on Friday, October 24, 2008. The symposium, co-hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, provided a current view of some of the most exciting topics within the broad field of environmental chemistry.

 

Symposium Agenda:

Welcome

Dorothy Dinsmoor, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Ellis Rubinstein, New York Academy of Sciences

Session I, Chair: Francois Morel, Princeton University

James Anderson, Harvard University

Strategic choices for global energy: Constraints from feedbacks in the climate system

 

Kimberly Prather, University of California, San Diego

New insights into the role of aerosols in climate change

 

Dianne Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

From iron oxides to infections: Roles for redox-active antibiotics in microbial survival and development

Session II, Chair: Beatrice Renault, New York Academy of Sciences

Paul Anastas, Yale University

Transformative innovations in green chemistry needed for sustainability

 

Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University

Selective yet general catalysts

Session III, Chair: John Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology

Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology

Artificial photosynthesis: Fuel from the sun

 

Daniel Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The chemistry of renewable energy

 

Session IV, Chair: John Brauman, Stanford University

Ralph Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences

Putting science to work in developing science policy

Related link: Symposium program