January 5, 2005

Revelle College At UCSD To Mark 40th Anniversary
With Winter Symposia Series On Global Warming

By Pat JaCoby

A four-week symposia series on global warming will mark the 40th anniversary of Revelle College, the first of the University of California, San Diego’s six colleges to be established. The Tuesday sessions, Jan. 11-Feb. 1, are free and open to the public.

A tribute to Roger Revelle, regarded as the “father” of UCSD, and a panel discussion on biological aspects of global warming will lead off the series at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 11 in York Hall 2622, site for all four meetings.

Participants in the tribute to Revelle will include Marye Anne Fox, UCSD chancellor; Walter Munk, research professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Keith Brueckner, professor emeritus of physics and first dean of the School of Science and Engineering; Hugh Bradner, professor emeritus of mechanical & aerospace engineering and professor emeritus of the Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, and Marge Bradner, associate of Revelle’s widow, Ellen.

Joining in the panel discussion on Global Warming; Biological Aspects of Human Impact on the Environment, will be Milt Saier, biology professor; Oliver Ryder, Kleberg Genetics chair and head, Genetics Division, Conservation & Research for Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego and adjunct professor, biology; Bill Fenical, director of the Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine; Jeremy Jackson, professor of the Geosciences Research Division, and David Woodruff, biology professor.

The 7:30 p.m. session Jan. 18 will include an introduction by Walter Munk, research professor, SIO, and a panel on Global Warming: Atmospheric Effects on the Environment. Participants will include Charles Kennel, director, SIO; Mark Thiemens, dean, Division of Physical Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Richard Somerville, professor, SIO; Kimberly Prather, professor, chemistry and biochemistry, and Gustaf Arrhenius, professor, SIO.

Herb York, director emeritus, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor emeritus of physics, will provide the introduction to the Jan. 25 session on Global Warming: Political Action to Save the Environment. Panel participants will include Lisa Shaffer, director, Policy Programs/International Relations, SIO; Richard Carson, chairman, Department of Economics; Paul Linden, professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering; Raymond Clemencon, adjunct professor & senior lecturer, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Rim Studies, and Mario Molina, Nobel laureate of chemistry, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and professor, Center for Atmospheric Sciences.

The Feb. 1 symposium will feature student and alumni speakers on the topic: What Revelle students have done to involve themselves in the concern for global warming. How has the Revelle curriculum prepared students to deal with science and politics in the future?

Nancy Groves, dean of academic advising at Revelle College and symposia chair, noted that students and alumni are especially invited to join in the series.

Additional information may be found at http://revelle.ucsd.edu/seminar/globalwarming.html.

Media Contact: Pat JaCoby, (858) 534-7404