Resources for meetings, programs, and consultation

II Resources for meetings, programs and consultation

Members  of the  CAT at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship of Ames, IA who can be called upon to give presentations or contacted for information:

1. Erwin (Erv) Klaas.  Retired ecologist who has kept up with climate change science by reading and speaking out on the issues. He is the contact person for Citizens Climate Lobby in Ames.

2. Sam Wormley. Sam argues climate change issues and what science has to say about climate change with naysayers on Usenet,  teaches climate change issues at the  Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Iowa State University.  Adj. Professor of Astronomy at MCC.  Strengths: patience and a sense of humor. Limitation: must be in Ames most Sunday AM’s for our fellowship programs.

3. Carolyn Heising. Carolyn is Professor of Industrial, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Iowa State University (since 1993. Prior to coming to Ames she was on the faculty at Northeastern Univerity (1984-92) and at MIT (1980-84).  She is an expert in probabilistic risk assessment and vulnerability risk assessment.  These assessment techniques are currently being applied throughout the world to assess the vulnerability of systems and communities to climate change.  She has been invited three times by the government of India to speak at a climate change seminar in Gwalior, India.  In February 2014 she  will return to India to speak at an international conference on climate change to be held in Gwalior.

4. Hugo (Fritz) Franzen. Fritz is a Physical Chemist who has spent over ten years developing an appreciation for the basic Physics and Chemistry of the greenhouse gas effect.  This basic science is not statistical  inference or computer simulation but is science that was developed primarily during the last century and forms the basis of  much that has been done in this area during the last several decades.  It is Fritz’s view that the basic science is far more accessible than the simulations and statistical details and has not received the attention it deserves.