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Teaching
2016: Decisions, Biases and the Creation of Knowledge (Summer) (
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2016: SCIENTIFIC READINGS: MARI/CCPO Seminar Series Spring 2016 (
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2015: SCIENTIFIC READINGS: MARI/CCPO Seminar Series Fall 2015 (
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2015: SCIENTIFIC READINGS: MARI/CCPO Seminar Series Spring 2015 (
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2014: Science in Literature: Reflections on the Social Constructs of Science in Society (
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2014: Introduction to the Science of Mitigation and Adaptation (
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2013: Guest Lecture in Oceanography: Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Communicating the Science of a Global Challenge (
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2013: Guest Lecture in English 231C: Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: Communicating the Science of a Global Challenge (
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2013: OEAS 895 Reading Course: Climate Change and Sea Level Rise (
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2011: Geology 495/695: Environmental Geodesy (
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Items of the month:
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Archive of items of the month
Story of the month
Picture of the month
Thought of the month
Activities I contribute to:
GEO Blue Planet Initiative
Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute
Economy For Humanity
GEOSS Science and Technology Service Suite
GEO Coastal Zone Community of Practice
GEO Geohazards Community of Practice
A Work Space for GEO
IGCP 565 Project
Selected Recent Presentations and Publication
2015, NASA Langley
: Preparing for Sea Level Rise ...
IDRC August 2014, Davos, Switzerland: On Earth's Life-Support Systems,
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keynotes
TEDx Talk, June 20, 2014
(Goto Session 2, 43 minutes into the recording.)
Safe Coast Virginia, October 16, 2013
AGU 2011: On joint analysis of geodetic data
Keynote on Sustainability (video version)
Keynote on Sustainability
IPCC/GEOSS 2011: Water Resources: New ...
EarthStock Keynote, April 2008
Connecting Delta Cities Workshop, June 2009
Month
Story of the Month
Thought of the Month
Picture of the Month
May 2014
What you do matters
Climate Change: an enemy with weapons of mass destruction
April 2014
Fighting the ocean with sand
March 2014
Addressing problems together
February 2014
Humanity for Economy or Economy for Humanity?
January 2014
When Scientists need to shout
Life and Death
December 2013
Activities in the Coastal Zone
November 2013
Economy for humanity
October 2013
Uncontrolled experiment or planetary accident?
Nuisance flooding
September 2013
August 2013
Scaling up
July 2013
Alarmist or realist?
June 2013
Knives and assault weapons
Running in fog
May 2013
Covering the issues
April 2013
Coal mining is digging humanity's grave
White-men supremacy
March 2013
They don't know what they are doing!
Mandela's rainbow country is a checkerboard
Pity Earth's Creatures
February 2013
Where is she?
January 2013
New Year on another Pplanet
Perception determines fears
I am annoyed ...
December 2012
Broker or Breaker?
How did this happen?
November 2012
Why are we here?
October 2012
September 2012
Flying away?
August 2012
Threat or Promise?
July 2012
Is success a reason to be cut?
June 2012
May 2012
Are the best building Earth's cockpit?
A view into a better sphere?
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
December 2011
Shouldn't this be prosecuted as a crime against humanity?
A perfect disguise
November 2011
The likely increase of disasters triggered by natural hazards
Controlling population
October 2011
Celebrating overpopulation
Towards interconnecting world and humanity
September 2011
Spaceship Earth won't get a cockpit
The top of the evolution
Old use of novel gadgets
August 2011
Should we legalize bank robbery because it is good for economy?
Swords to ploughshares?
July 2011
Cultural differences revealed by reactions to atrocity
June 2011
Climate Extremes or Climate Change?
May 2011
Benefits of Climate Change?
April 2011
ISRSE34 in Sydney: When are exploited scientists going to speak up?
Are prayers all that is left to us in mitigating the impact of man-made climate change?
When will we see us?
March 2011
Water can be so much fun ...
February 2011
Would you stay on an airplane, where the pilots only get one third of the essential information?
January 2011
Is there anything like a natural disaster?
December 2010
Most likely, he won't be a CNN Hero.
Checkmate for the Turkey.
November 2010
We are the first global mammal species.
Are we seeing the full picture?
October 2010
Is the USA the turkey?
A Great Leap Forward?
September 2010
San Francisco Bay: An example of Integrated Coastal Zone Management?
August 2010
What is the message?
Tradition and modernity
July 2010
How old do you have to be to command respect?
June 2010
But: Bigger Picture Please.
May 2010
“If you can pay for them, then you also can pay for us!”
This spill fundamentally threatens our way of life.
Apr 2010
No one knows how to deal with this situation
The soft record of history
Should homo urbanis own dogs?
Mar 2010
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Hydrogen island
Are we seeing Soria Moria in the far distance?
Feb 2010
The risk of tilting your seat
Humanity is the malignant skin cancer of Gaia
San Francisco and the CFD Triangle.
Jan 2010
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Is what looks like paradise always paradise?
Dec 2009
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Nov 2009
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Celebrity science
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Oct 2009
Wars on airplanes
Human survial and the Sputnik of the 21st century
Everybody needs a friend
Sep 2009
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Aug 2009
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Shoes again ...
Jul 2009
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Layers of time
Jun 2009
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
May 2009
The eye of humanity
The Age of Stupid
The disaster of bottled water ...
Apr 2009
How much does a smile cost?
We will not go quietly into the night!
Judging bottled water ...
Mar 2009
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A country where 2% of the kids experience homelessness
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Feb 2009
We've been in the bushes for too
long ...
Can it get more crazy? and Human fears and reality
Whirling on the periphery ...
Jan 2009
No story, but ...
Respecting differences, not reducing them
A pair of not so well-kept shoes ...
Dec 2008
Then why did you put it there?
We need a water footprint
A pair of well-kept shoes ...
Nov 2009
America's perforated floor
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