Schweppe Lecture Series

Dr. Bill Miller
The University of Georgia

Thursday, January 31, 2008, 7:00 PM
Visitors Center Auditorium

"Fire, Earth, Air, & Water:
Some alchemical stories of global change"

This presentation will examine some theories about how the ocean and atmosphere interact to indirectly control planetary climate. In particular, the critical and potentially interactive role of iron and sulfur will be used to discuss the complexity of ocean-atmosphere feedbacks as they relate to biological activity, cloud formation, CO2 sequestration, and global warming.  While the nature of these feedbacks are becoming more clear as modern oceanic and atmospheric research uncovers new information on the pieces that make up the puzzle of global change, they lead directly to more questions and directions for new research.

 Dr. Miller has degrees in Biology, Marine Biology, and Chemical Oceanography and is currently a professor at the University of Georgia and Director of the Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, GA.

The free lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Visitors Center of The University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, and the public is invited to attend. Dr. Miller's visit to the Marine Science Institute is part of the Laura Randall Schweppe Endowed Lecture Series in Marine Science.