Tom Fudge: When I was growing up, changes in the weather were the stuff of small talk and a short segment on the local TV news. But today, they've become a subject of life and death and the future of the human race. I'm talking, of course, about global warming.
San Diego is one of the world's centers for the study of climate change, thanks to the work of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. That's where Michael Freilich went to college. Now he's a professor of Oceanography at Oregon State and he directs the Earth Science Division for NASA. Michael spends a lot of his time studying satellite images of the ocean to learn what the Seven Seas have to tell us about weather forecasting and climate change. His division of NASA is preparing to launch an observation device that promises to draw us a very detailed map of what's producing greenhouses gases, and what's absorbing them.
Dr. Freilich will deliver the 9th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture tonight at 4:30 p.m. in the Sumner Auditorium of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Guest
- Dr. Michael Freilich , professor of oceanography at Oregon State University , and director of the Earth Science Division for NASA
