Our Environment and Public Policy - Virtual Town Hall - June 5 @ 7pm
Anna Kelles, PhD
Robert Howarth, PhD
Anthony Ingraffea, PhD
Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Photo credit: Wendy Lynne Lee, Ph.D
Join Dr. Anna Kelles (nutritional epidemiologist & candidate for NYS Assembly) and three experts on environmental issues for this "virtual town hall" discussion on public policy and confronting global climate change.
Panelists will field questions at the end of the discussion from the public.
Our panelists participate as private citizens; their academic affiliations are for identification only:
• Robert Howarth, Ph.D., David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Cornell University
• Anthony Ingraffea, Ph.D., P.E., Dist. Member ASCE; Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University
• Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Environmental Studies and Science at Ithaca College
Follow the livestream YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hL6fYvFhxFw
Or click the link below to register for the webinar directly on Zoom (limited to first 100 participants):
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xe2iowkiSvepV7E-zSRtTg
ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:
Anna Kelles currently serves as a Tompkins County legislator and chairs the Housing and Economic Development Committee. She is also a course designer of an eCornell Certificate program in Sustainability and the Food System for the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Before becoming a legislator, she earned her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from UNC - Chapel Hill. She was a faculty in nutrition and public health at Ithaca College and Cornell and the director of the School of Clinical Nutrition at New York Chiropractic College before starting a private practice in nutrition and wellness in 2015. She is currently a candidate for the NYS Assembly seat representing Tompkins and Cortland counties.
Robert Howarth is an Earth systems scientist and ecosystem biologist. He earned a BA from Amherst College (1974, magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. jointly from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1979). After several years as a staff scientist at Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA, Howarth joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1985. Eight years later in 1993, he was appointed the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology. Howarth has published over 250 scientific papers, reports, and book chapters and has edited or authored eight books, including the textbook Essentials of Ecology (Begon, Howarth, & Townsend, 2014). His peer-reviewed papers have been cited more than 65,000 times in other peer-reviewed literature, making him one of the most cited environmental scientists in the world. In 2011, Time magazine named him one of the 50 People Who Matter in the Person of the Year Issue for his research on how methane emissions from shale development aggravate climate change.
Anthony Ingraffea, PhD, is a professional engineer, and author active in the fossil fuel harms and renewable energy benefits arenas. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
Sandra Steingraber, PhD, is a biologist, cancer survivor and author active in the anti-fracking wing of the climate justice movement. She lives in Trumansburg, New York.
