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  • Subject: [tcrp-news] Fwd: Announcement: Campus Lecture & Visit/ADW Professor-at-Large Osvaldo Sala, Professor of Biology
  • Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:13:48 -0400

Dear Friends--I thought this might be of interest to some of us. Tom

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:31:57 -0400
To: mmm10 AT cornell.edu
From: Paula Euvrard <pge3 AT cornell.edu> (by way of BZ Marranca <mmm10 AT cornell.edu>)
Subject: Announcement:  Campus Lecture & Visit/ADW Professor-at-Large
  Osvaldo Sala, Professor of Biology

Announcement of Formal Campus Visit by Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large

Dr.Osvaldo Sala

Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University

This is to inform faculty members and students that a formal campus visit by Dr. Sala has been scheduled from Sunday, October 18-Friday, October 23, 2009.

Dr. Sala will conduct a public talk on Wednesday, October 21, at 4:00-5:15 pm in the Morison Seminar Room in Corson Mudd Hall.  The title of his talk is:

Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate Change in the North American Continent

Dr. Sala currently has time in his visit schedule for meetings or other engagements.

Those wishing to set a time to meet with Dr. Sala, or make other arrangements should contact Penny Dietrich, Program Administrator, A.D. White Professors-at-Large, at pn12 AT cornell.edu, or by phone at 255-0832. Please do so by Wednesday, October 7. This faculty host is Professor Robert Howarth, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.


Osvaldo Sala
Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large (July 1, 2004-June 30, 2010)

Professor Sala is an international leader in both ecological science and global environmental policy. His interests are in ecology span from the arid ecosystems of Patagonia to global change issues with a focus on ecosystem-level questions including primary production, ecosystem-water dynamics, and most recently, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Prof. Sala using a diverse set of tools in pursuing those interests ranging from field manipulations to ecosystem models. He is also interested in coordinating international research projects. For example, he led an international group who developed scenarios for biodiversity change in the next century. Prof. Sala has been a member of the scientific steering committee of International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems where he led Focus 4 Biodiversity and Global Change, and DIVERSITAS. He has also served as president of the Argentinean Society of Ecology. Currently, Prof. Sala is President of the Latin American Plant Sciences network (Red Latinoamericana de Botáánica) and the Secretary General of Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). He has co-authored publication with colleagues from many countries including the US, UK, German, France, Australia, China, Japan, India, Canada, Mexico, Chile , and Venezuela. For more information visit:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Osvaldo_Sala


  • [tcrp-news] Fwd: Announcement: Campus Lecture & Visit/ADW Professor-at-Large Osvaldo Sala, Professor of Biology, Tompkins County Relocalization Project, 10/01/2009

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