Physics Seminar: BETWEEN THREE FIRES. HUMANITY CREATES A FIRE AGE.
Friday, September 6, 2024, 3 pm to 4 pm
Campus:
Dayton
Audience:
Current Students
Faculty
The Physics seminar for Sept 6, 2024 will be a prerecorded lecture.聽 We will convene at 3:00 pm on line at聽聽to watch and discuss:
The Frontiers of Geophysics lecture presented on December 12, 2023 at the Fall 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting.
Presented by:
Stephen Pyne, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, University of Arizona
Titled:
BETWEEN THREE FIRES. HUMANITY CREATES A FIRE AGE.
Dr. Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and an urban farmer. He has written widely about fire and humanity, including fire histories for the U.S., Australia, Canada, Europe (including Russia), Mexico (in press), and Earth, most recently聽The Pyrocene. Other books include聽Grove Karl Gilbert;聽The Ice聽(Antarctica);聽How the Canyon Became Grand;聽Voyager;聽The Great Ages of Discovery; and two books on writing nonfiction,聽Voice and Vision聽and聽Style and Story.聽In an earlier life he spent 15 seasons with the North Rim Longshots, a wildland fire crew at Grand Canyon National Park, and three seasons writing fire plans for Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone National Parks.
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