THURSDAY: Rich Lecture Speaker Henry Pollack Focuses on Science and Public Policy

Henry Pollack, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, will give this year’s Rich Lecture. Pollack is a specialist in heat flow, climate analysis and the thermal structure of continents. His outstanding 41-year career at the University of Michigan was capped by selection as a Geological Society of America Distinguished Lecturer in 2005 and by election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006.

Pollack is a past member of the American Geophysical Union’s Committee for Global Environmental Change, and in 2003 published a book examining the role of science in public-policy debates: Uncertain Science…Uncertain World (Cambridge University Press).

The Rich Lecture is intended to bring earth-science issues that have implications for public policy to the attention of the broader university community and the general public. The lecture is endowed by the University of Cincinnati Geology Department’s John L. Rich Fund.

Rich Lecture:

"Scientific Uncertainty and Public Policy: Moving On Without All the Answers"

Thursday, April 27, 2:00 p.m.
University of Cincinnati, Braunstein Hall, Room 301

In addition to the Rich Lecture, Pollack will also give a talk at the Department of Geology’s regular weekly colloquium on Friday, April 28. Interested members of the university community and the public are invited to attend. Please note that both the starting time and room number for this talk differ from those of the Rich Lecture.

"Five Centuries of Climate Change: The View from Underground"

Friday, April 28, 3:00 p.m.
University of Cincinnati, Braunstein Hall, Room 201