13th Annual
The 13th J. Louis Agassiz Symposium of the Climate Change Institute will take place on May 5-6, 2005. This year's venue will be the conference room facility in the Sawyer Environmental Center.
The keynote speaker is Professor Jean-Daniel Stanley. The topic of his talk is "Sunken History: Ancient Human Settlements beneath the Mediterranean: Interpreting the Role of Natural Hazards and Human Activity".
Professor Stanley is a Senior Scientist and the Director of the Geoarcheology-Global Change Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. His research interests are in coastal and marine geology, and geoarcheology, with a special focus on nearshore environmental problems. He currently directs international multi-disciplinary projects on coastal geoarchaeology, deltas and global change sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and other national and international agencies. Professor Stanley has held visiting academic appointments at institutions in the France, Canada and the United States, including the University of Maine. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980.
PDF of Abstracts