Laurence C. Smith Public Lecture, April 12

Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.
ARTS 150

Laurence C. Smith, Ph.D., professor and vice-chair of Geography and professor of Earth & Space Sciences at UCLA, will be giving his lecture "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future" as the keynote address for UAA's Undergraduate Research and Discovery Symposium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Smith's  research interests include topics of northern hydrology, climate change, carbon cycles and satellite remote sensing. He has published over sixty peer-reviewed articles, including articles in the journals Science and Nature, and has won more than $6M in research funding from NSF and NASA. In 2011 he won the Walter P. Kistler Book Award for The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future (Plume: New York, 2011), a general-audience book synthesizing crosscutting themes of population demographics, economic globalization, natural resource demand, and climate change with particular emphasis on north countries. A book signing will follow the lecture.