[SEMCO] WHRC July Seminars

[Sheri DeRosa]

*************WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER SEMINARS JULY 23 & 29*************

The Woods Hole Research Center will hold two seminars this month at its new
Ordway Campus, 149 Woods Hole Road. The first lecture will be on Wednesday,
July 23 at 11 a.m. in the Harbourton Auditorium. Roger Kasperson, Executive
Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), will speak on
"Assessing human vulnerability to global environmental change."

Professor Kasperson received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in
1966. He has written widely on issues connected with risk analysis, risk
communication, global environmental change, risk and ethics, and
environmental policy. He has been honored for his hazards research by the
Association of American Geographers. From 1992-1996 he chaired the
International Geographical Union Commission on Critical Situations/Regions
in Global Environmental Change. He serves on the advisory board of the
Society for Risk Analysis, the National Research Council's Board on
Radioactive Waste Management, and the Science Advisory Board of the
Environmental Protection Agency.

The second seminar, featuring Professor Jørn Siljeholm, will be on Tuesday,
July 29 at 3 p.m., also in the Harbourton Auditorium of the Woods Hole
Research Center. Siljeholm, who was part of the UNMOVIC (United Nations
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) team in Iraq just prior
to U.S. military action, will give a talk entitled, "Reflections on Iraq's
Weapons of Mass Destruction: A UN Inspector's Experiences."

Professor Siljeholm holds a doctorate in chemical risk analysis and is
currently at the Security Studies Program of the Center for International
Studies at MIT. He has served as environmental chemist and environmental
advisor for Esso Norway refineries, advisor to CONCAWE, the European oil
companies' joint research organization, and Executive Vice President for
Communications at Norway's largest finance company, Storebrand. He was
executive director of Naturevernforbundet, the Norwegian Society for the
Conservation of Nature, and chaired the Norwegian Research Organization for
Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Woods Hole Research Center seminars are free and open to the public. For
further information call 508-540-9900.


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