Earth Institute News Archive
posted 1999
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 50th Anniversary Celebration
As Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was established in 1949, 1999 marked its Jubilee: 50 years of discovery! In celebration, the Observatory hosted several events, including a public lecture series, an alumni reunion, a special open house and a scholarly conference, the State of the Planet Conference.
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Hundreds of people from the communities surrounding Lamont attended the lecture series, which ran one Sunday a month, from February through May. Included in the talk were ones by Walter Pitman and Bill Ryan on their discoveries relating to Noah's Flood; the prognosis for Greenhouse Warming by Wally Broecker, The Earth Sciences and nuclear arms control by Paul Richards, predicting El Nino by Mark Cane, what will happen if NYC gets hit by an earthquake by Klaus Jacob, and talks about Lamont and Doherty by John Armbruster and Doug Brusa.
The Lamont Alumni Reunion included programs about
Lamont's first 50 years, a gala get-together at the IBM Executive Conference
Center, which attracted more than 400 people, and a barbecue on the Lamont
grounds. At the reunion, talks were given by Joe Worzel, Lawrence Kulp,
Frank Press, Karl Turekian, Jack Oliver, Dick Holland, George Sutton and
Bruno Giletti. The talks were videotaped and soon will be available on
this site. The reunion was scheduled to coincide with Lamont's annual open
house, where special exhibits elucidated the Observatory's first 50 years
of achievement. More than 6,000 people attended the open house.
The State of the Planet Conference
Winter
1999/2000 Issue on the
State of the Planet
with papers of conference speakers
Archive of the State of the Planet Conference: agenda and webcast
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