NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

EarthFest
April 26, 2008
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Christopher Newport University

"Global Fever: Is There a Cure?"

Speakers on the Hour in the Music and Arts Theater

• 11 a.m.: Dr. Joel Levine, NASA Langley Research Center
  Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
  
• Noon:Dr. Maria Ivanova, College of William & Mary and Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
  Global Policy and the Environment
  
• 1 p.m.: Dr. Harold Cones, CNU
  Global Deforestation Issues
  
• 2 p.m.:Dr. James Bauer, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  Climate Change Impact to Coastal Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay
  
• 3 p.m.: Dr. Mary Cleave, former NASA astronaut and scientist
  Earth Systems as Studied from Space
  

Studio Theater: Ask-a-Scientist Panels
“Air, Life, Water, and Sun-Earth Connection”

Dr Lin Chambers, Moderator

11:30 a.m.

• Dr. Norman G. Loeb, NASA Langley
  Area of Expertise: The Earth's Radiant Energy System, Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
  
• Dr. J. Emmett Duffy, Glucksman Professor of Marine Science
  The College of William and Mary,Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  Area of Expertise: Marine biodiversity and food webs
  
• Dr. Mark R. Patterson, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  Area of Expertise: Underwater robotics, coral reefs, biological fluid mechanics
  
• Dr. Marty Mlynczak, NASA Langley
  Area of Expertise: Earth's upper atmosphere
  

1:30 p.m.

• Dr. Bruce G. Doddridge, NASA Langley
  Area of expertise: Atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, climate change
  
• Dr. George W. Gilchrist, College of William & Mary
  Area of expertise: Evolutionary genetics and climate change
  
• Dr. Linah Ababneh, College of William & Mary
  Area of expertise: Paleoclimatologist and dendrochronology
  
• Dr. Marty Mlynczak, NASA Langley
  Area of Expertise: Earth’s upper atmosphere