James Rodger Fleming, Colby College
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lunch Talk
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org
This presentation examines the tragicomic history of rainmakers, weather warriors, and climate engineers, arguing that history matters in pressing issues of current public-policy concern and technical decision-making.
James Rodger Fleming is a historian of science and technology and professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College. Fleming recently held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution, the Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a public-policy scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In the spring of 2011 he will convene a Gordon Cain research conference on the history of atmospheric chemistry at CHF.