On Tuesday, Oct. 6 and Wednesday, Oct. 7, the 45th annual Nobel Conference, titled H2O: Uncertain Resource, is viewable via a live webcast. To watch the conference live online go to gustavus.edu/nobelconference.
The schedule for this year’s conference is as follows:
Tuesday, Oct. 6
- 10:00 a.m.: Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, Switzerland and Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India;
- 1:00 p.m.: Nancy N. Rabalais, Executive Director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium;
- 3:00 p.m.: David Sedlak, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley;
- 8:15 p.m.: Shawn Otto, co-founder and CEO of Science Debate 2008; Chair of the board of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis; Screenwriter and co-producer of the movie House of Sand and Fog;
Wednesday, Oct. 7
- 10 a.m.: Peter H. Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, Oakland, Calif.;
- 1:00 p.m.: Larry Rasmussen, Emeritus Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, New York City;
- 3:00 p.m.: Asit Biswas, President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Atizapan, Mexico;
- 6:30 p.m (banquet): William L. Graf, Chair of the Department of Geography, University of South Carolina;
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