FORGING THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE
THE NEXT 50 YEARS

October 19, 2007
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE: THE SUN-EARTH CONNECTION

NEW ENGLAND CENTER, GREAT BAY ROOM (3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

Dr. Berrien Moore, Director, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, UNH
Dr. Robert Corell, Director, Global Change Programs, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, D.C.
Dr. George Hurtt, Associate Professor, Natural Resources, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, UNH
Dr. James Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Harvard University
Dr. Roy Torbert, Director, Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, UNH

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN CAUSES
NEW ENGLAND CENTER, GREAT BAY ROOM (8:00 p.m.)

Lecturer: Dr. Ralph Cicerone
President, National Academy of Sciences

Local co-host: University of New Hampshire

WEBCAST

Sponsored by: The National Academies National Aeronautics and Space Administration Boeing Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman Orbital Sciences Corporation ATK Ball Aerospace Aerospace Corporation

Co-sponsored by: American Astronautical Society American Astronomical Society American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics COSPAR International Space University National Space Society Planetary Society

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Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone

Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is an atmospheric scientist whose research in atmospheric chemistry and climate change has shaped science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally. Prior to his election as Academy president, Dr. Cicerone was the chancellor of the University of California (UC), Irvine.

Dr. Cicerone’s research was recognized on the citation for the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to UC, Irvine, colleague F. Sherwood Rowland. The Franklin Institute recognized his fundamental contributions to the understanding of greenhouse gases and ozone depletion by selecting him as the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, one of the most prestigious American awards in science. The Bower also recognized his public policy leadership in protecting the global environment. In 2001, Dr. Cicerone led a National Academy of Sciences study requested by President Bush of the current state of climate change and its impact on the environment and human health. He was awarded the 2002 American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal for outstanding research contributions to the understanding of Earth’s atmospheric processes, biogeochemical cycles, or other key elements of the climate system. In 2004, the World Cultural Council honored him with another of the scientific community’s most distinguished awards, the Albert Einstein World Award in Science.

During his early career, Dr. Cicerone was a research scientist and held faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan. In 1978 he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC, San Diego as a research chemist. From 1980 to 1989, he was a senior scientist and director of the atmospheric chemistry division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. In 1989 he was appointed the Daniel G. Aldrich Professor of Earth System Science at UC, Irvine and chaired the Department of Earth System science from 1989 to 1994. While serving as dean of physical sciences for the next four years, he brought outstanding faculty to the school and strengthened its curriculum and outreach programs.

Dr. Cicerone is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He has served as president of the American Geophysical Union, the world's largest society of earth scientists, and he received its James B. Macelwane Award in 1979 for outstanding contributions to geophysics. He has presented invited testimony to the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on a number of occasions.

Biography Source:
The National Academies

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