This was sent out on the SSEC list, I thought others would like to see the
notice too.
-Monica Harkey
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
02/22/06
Contact: Claus Moberg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
COLUMBIA SCIENTIST TO SPEAK ON CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY
MADISON - How could climate change affect air quality and human health in
the future? A Columbia University scientist who is exploring this question
in the nation's largest city will speak at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 6, at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Patrick Kinney, associate professor of environmental health sciences at
Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, will lecture on the "Climate
Change, Air Quality, and Public Health" at 1325 Health Sciences Learning
Center, 750 Highland Ave. A reception will follow. The event is free, and
the public is welcome.
Kinney leads the New York Climate and Health Project, which is developing
and testing computer models to assess potential future air quality and
health effects of climate and land use changes in the New York City
metropolitan area.
An epidemiologist who studies the impacts of air pollution on human health,
he has investigated the effects of ozone and particulate matter on
children's lung function and on daily death rates in large cities.
Recently, he has focused on exposures to indoor allergens, diesel vehicle
emissions, volatile organic compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and
other air toxins in underprivileged neighborhoods of New York City.
Kinney's presentation is the fourth in a series of Roy F. Weston Global
Distinguished Sustainability Lectures this year at UW-Madison. Weston, an
alumnus of the university, founded Weston Solutions Inc., an international
environmental and redevelopment firm.
The Weston lectures are sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the
Global Environment (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies),
the department of civil and environmental engineering, the Center for World
Affairs and the Global Economy, and the Global Environmental Studies
Research Circle.
For more information, visit http://www.sage.wisc.edu/pages/news.html or
contact the series coordinator, Claus Moberg, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- Tom Sinclair, (608) 263-5599
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