Location: Columbia University Comer Building, 1st floor conference room, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 61 Route 9W, Palisades NY
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Meredith Golden by sending email to mg587@columbia.edu .
Speakers: Dr. Habibul Ahsan, PI, Columbia University Super Research Program Health Effects of As Longitudinal Study (HEALS) project; Director, Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, University of Chicago; Dr. Kazi Matin Ahmed, Columbia University Super Research Program scientist; Professor, Department of Geology, University of Dhaka's
If you are interested in participating in person, please send an email with "CU SRP November Seminar" in the subject line to syoshida@ldeo.columbia.edu so that your name will be included on the list for the entrance guard.
If you are interested in participating remotely, please send an email with "CU SRP November Webinar" in the
subject line to mgolden@ciesin.columbia.edu. Please
indicate your affiliation in the email. An invitation to participate in
the webinar will be sent to you if you send your request by Thursday,
November 15th.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Recent findings and progress of HEALS:
Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study"
Dr. Habibul Ahsan
Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
University of Chicago
Department of Epidemiology, MSPH
Columbia University
habib@uchicago.edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Towards Sustainable Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: Achievements and Challenges"
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Department of Geology
Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Dhaka
kazimatin@yahoo.com
5:00pm Adjourn
Sponsors: Earth Institute