Utah Professor Climate Change Talk Jan. 25
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Norihiko Fukuta, a Dept. of Meteorology prfessor emeritus at the University of Utah, will give a Friday, Jan. 25 talk at the University of Maine. Fukuta’s presentation, “Global Warming, Energy Regulation by Earth’s Hydrosphere and the Management with a New Weather Modification Technology.” The lecture, which is presented by UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, isscheduled for noon-1 p.m. in Room 100 of UMaine’s Bryand Global Sciences Building.
Vladimir Smorodin of the UMaine Climate Change Institute will serve as Fukuta’s host.
Fukuta has written two books and nearly 200 journal articles. He also holds ten patents. He is a leading cloud physicist, who has explored basic science of controlling the weather and worked to develop cloud seeding generator technology. This weather modification research has potential implications for promoting artificial rain, supressing fog at airports and mitigating severe hail precipitation.