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FORGING THE FUTURE OF SPACE SCIENCE
THE NEXT 50 YEARS
THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY. THE WEBCAST, PODCAST, AND PRESENTATIONS OF THE LECTURE AND PANEL SESSION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE SSB WEBSITE AFTER THE EVENT.
INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR: UNDERSTANDING THE POLES OF THE EARTH, MOON AND MARS
March 27, 2008
Marie Curie Auditorium, Building D, CNRS, 3 Rue Michel Ange
Paris, France
PANEL SESSION
Marie Curie Auditorium, Building D, CNRS, 3 Rue Michel Ange 75016 PARIS
Dr. David Southwood, Director of Science, ESA (panel moderator)
Dr. Waleed Abdalati, Head of Oceans and Ice Branch and Manager of Cryospheric Sciences Program, NASA/GSFC. Presentation: "Unlocking Polar Secrets Using the Space-based Perspective"
Prof. Lennart Bengttson, Senior Research Fellow, NERC-ESSC. Presentation: "Challenges in Monitoring Global Climate"
Dr. Willy Benz, Astrophysicist/Professor, University of Bern. Presentation: "Searching for Earth's Twin"
Dr. Lodewijk Woltjer, Observatoire de Haute Provence. Presentation: "Astronomy at the Poles"
LECTURE: UNDERSTANDING THE POLES OF THE EARTH, MOON AND MARS
Marie Curie Auditorium, Building D, CNRS, 3 Rue Michel Ange 75016 PARIS
Lecturer: Prof. Chris Rapley CBE
Director of the London Science Museum
View a brief biography
Local co-host: Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
Host institutions: Centre National de la Researche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU)
WEBCAST
Sponsored by:
The National Academies
NASA
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Orbital Sciences Corporation
ATK
Ball Aerospace
Aerospace Corporation
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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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PROFESSOR CHRIS RAPLEY CBE
Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Director of Science Museum. Prior to this he was Director of the British Antarctic Survey. This followed a period as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, and an extended period as Professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London. He has a first degree in physics from Oxford, an M.Sc. in radioastronomy from Manchester University, a Ph.D. in X-ray astronomy from University College London, and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Bristol. He is President of the International Council of Science’s (ICSU) Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research and is a member of the international steering committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008. He is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, a Fellow of University College London, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. His interests are in climate change and earth system science, as well as a more general interest in the organisation, leadership and communication of science.
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