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Sponsored by the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation

Thursday, May 3, 2018Public Lecture: 4 - 5 p.m. Coffee & Tea: 3:30 p.m. Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.

Salomon, Room 101 De Ciccio Family Auditorium 79 Waterman Street Providence, RI, 02912

Lonnie G. Thompson Distinguished University Professor The Ohio State UniversityLonnie G. Thompson is one of the world’s foremost authorities on paleoclimatology and glaciology. He has led 62 expeditions during the last 40 years, conducting ice-core drilling programs in the polar regions, as well as on tropical and subtropical ice fields in 16 countries including China, Peru, Russia, Tanzania and Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).

An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, and the Dan David Prize. Thompson was selected by Time magazine and CNN as one of Americas Best in science and medicine. An elected member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he has received the Friendship Award and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award from the People’s Republic of China.