*RADCLIFFE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM* *Cloudy with a Chance of Solutions: The Future of Water*
*Friday, October 12, 2012 | 9 am – 5 pm* *Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard***** The Radcliffe Institute’s annual science symposium will focus on the important and challenging topic of water. Water is a theme that encompasses issues as varied as environmental contaminations, public health, agricultural shortages, and geopolitical disputes. “Cloudy with a Chance of Solutions: The Future of Water” will focus on the ecological and public health hazards of emerging environmental contaminants, the promise of new technologies in water treatment, advances in urban and other geographical areas that play increasingly important roles in water conservation, and the all-important roles of commercial interests and governmental policy. The majority of the talks will focus on the hard science of water-related issues; others will offer the perspectives of experts from the policy, business, or urban planning worlds to put the scientific discussions in a broader context and to link them thematically. Speakers include *Menachim Elimelech*, Yale University (The Future of Seawater Desalination); *Bruce Rittmann*, Arizona State University (Water as Part of the Solution to Renewable Biofuel, not a Roadblock); *Martin Melosi*, University of Houston (Water is Not the Next Oil); *Charles Tyler*, University of Exeter (Impacts of Environmental Endocrine Disruptors and Other Emerging Contaminants on Fish); *Patricia* *Hunt*, Washington State University (Are Environmental Contaminants Affecting Your Reproductive Health?); *Sandra Steingraber*, Ecologist and Author (Fracking Our Water: Emerging Threats to Drinking Water in an Age of Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction); and *Gerald* *Galloway*, University of Maryland (Dealing with the Whole: The Need for a National Water Policy). The symposium will also include roundtable discussion groups at lunch and a poster session, and will be followed by a reception. Registration (free) is required and will open in early September. Website and draft program: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-cloudy-with-chance-of-solutions* *** ** ** Natalie T. Boelman *Storke-Doherty Lecturer &* *Lamont Assistant Research Professor * Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University 845.365.8480 (tel) General Research Website <http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/nboelman> Birds & Seasonality Project Website <http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~nboelman> New York Times blog from the Tundra<http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/author/natalie-boelman/>
