Revkin, a reporter for The New York Times since 1995, where he writes the “Dot Earth” blog, has covered environmental issues in their social and political context. Subjects reported on by Revkin, who has traveled to the Arctic three times, include murder in the Amazon and the political clash over global warming.
In 1992, Revkin wrote Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, which was the companion volume to the first museum exhibition on climate change at the American Museum of Natural History. A book signing will accompany Revkin's talk.
Before joining the Times, Revkin was senior editor of Discover, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a senior writer at Science Digest. Revkin, who has taught environmental reporting at Columbia University, has a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
The Global Agenda series is organized and mediated by Ralph Begleiter, Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence at UD. All lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. on the designated Wednesday and are held at Mitchell Hall.
The remaining schedule and lineup of speakers follows.
Wednesday, March 27, Janet Hall, senior policy adviser at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C., will lecture on special challenges faced by the poorest nations in the fight against global warming.
Wednesday, April 9, John Byrne, who is the director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at UD and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at UD, as well as a member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, will lecture on the importance of making sustainable energy into public policy.
Wednesday, April 23, Daniel Reifsnyder, deputy assistant secretary of State for Environment, will lecture on “Making Climate Change Policy for the U.S. Government.” Reifsnyder is responsible for a broad range of issues related to environmental protection and conservation. He has been involved with developing, negotiating and implementing climate change policy for the United States government since 1989 and was a member of the U.S. diplomatic team at the Bali climate change conference last December.
Wednesday, May 7, John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company and adviser to the American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy, will lecture on achieving energy security through sound public policy.
Wednesday, May 14, Maj. Gen. Richard L. Engel USAF (Ret), U.S. Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will lecture on “Implications for National Security”. Engel has served as a senior military analyst with the Strategic Assessments Group of the Office of Transnational Issues of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The series is free and open to the public. For more information, visit [www.udel.edu/global].
