UMaine Alumni Association and Phi Kappa Phi to Host Lecture
Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586
ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine Alumni Association, together with Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, will host a reception and lecture by noted climatologist A. Scott Denning, associate professor at Colorado State University and a 1984 University of Maine graduate.
Denning will speak on Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at Donald P. Corbett Busness Building on the University of Maine campus. The topic of his lecture will be “Carbon-Climate Connections in the 21st Century.”
The lecture will be preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the building’s atrium. It is free and open to the general public, but guests are asked to RSVP to (207) 581-1185 or 1-800-934-2586.
Denning received his B.A. in Geological Sciences from the University of Maine in 1984. He went on to earn M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 1993 and 1994. After a two-year postdoctoral appointment modeling global sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide, he spent two years as an assistant professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the Atmospheric Science faculty at Colorado State University in 1998 and in 2002 received CSU’s prestigious Monfort Professor Award.