Publications and Events

2011

Drowning and Drought: Extreme Weather Impacts on our Economy and Society
B-340 Rayburn • December 2, 2011
• John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist and Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
• Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America
• Moderator: Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director for Science and Impacts, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
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Infectious Disease: Challenges to Eradication
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • November 21, 2011
• Host: David Kestenbaum
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Infectious Disease: Challenges to Eradication
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • November 7, 2011
• Host: Richard Harris
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Fukushima: Lessons Learned
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • October 24, 2011
• Experts: Gregory Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Host: Richard Harris
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Cyber Attack: Crime, Terrorism, or National Security?
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • October 3, 2011
• Experts: Stewart Baker, author & former Assistant Secretary of Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; John Steinbruner, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland & Director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM).
• Host: David Kestenbaum
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Nanotech
B-338 Rayburn • September 7, 2011
• Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH); Author, “Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011
• George M. Gray, Ph.D., Director, Center for Risk Science and Public Health, and Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University
• Moderator: Alan Leshner, PhD, CEO of AAAS.

Neurotechnology and the Military
B-340 Rayburn • July 26, 2011
• Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD, Investigator, Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine, Providence VA Medical Center; Associate Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Acute Stroke and Neurocritical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; Visiting Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Martha J. Farah, PhD, Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science, Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy), University of Pennsylvania; Author, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006)
• Moderator: Alan Leshner, PhD, CEO of AAAS.

The Vulnerability of U.S. Water Resources to Climate Change: From the Mississippi River floods to growing shortages in the West
1324 Longworth • May 9, 2011
• Peter H. Gleick, Ph.D., Co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California

Geoengineering: The Risk Management Potential of Climate Engineering
1334 Longworth • April 12, 2011
• Ken Caldeira, Ph.D., Climate scientist, Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology, & professor, by courtesy, Department of Environmental Earth System Sciences, Stanford University
• David Keith, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Budget Battles: Outlook for Federal Research and Development
Rayburn B338-B339 • April 7, 2011
• Patrick Clemins Director, R&D Budget & Policy Program, AAAS

Weather, Climate, and Food
Russell 328A • March 25, 2011
• Dr. Donald A. Wilhite, Director of the School of Natural Resources and Professor of climatology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Dr. Michael Roberts, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Obstacles to Openness and Sharing in Stem Cell Science: Innovation, the Public Interest, and Recommendations for Next Steps
AAAS Auditorium 1200 New York Avenue NW • January 24, 2011
• Debra Mathews, PhD, MA:Assistant Director for Science Programs, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
• Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD, FMedSci, FRS: Head, Division of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics MRC National Institute for Medical Research (UK)
• Robert Cook-Deegan, MD: Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy; Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy Duke University