Columbia University professor to present lecture at the College of Wooster
Maureen Raymo will present "Climate, CO2 and Sea Level: Past is Prologue" at the 37th annual Richard G. Osgood, Jr. Memorial Lecture at the College of Wooster.
Maureen Raymo, the Bruce C. Heezen Lamont Research Professor and director of Lamont-Doherty Core Repository of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, will present "Climate, CO2 and Sea Level: Past is Prologue" at the 37th annual Richard G. Osgood, Jr. Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 11 at the College of Wooster.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall at 303 E. University St. A dessert reception will precede the lecture.
Raymo is a paleoceanographer/marine geologist who studies the history and causes of climate change in the Earth’s past. She has done pioneering work on ice ages, the geologic temperature record and climate, examining and theorizing about global cooling and warming and transitions in ice-age cycles.
In 2016 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2014 she was the first woman to win the Wollaston Medal for geology, the highest award of the Geological Society of London, in 183 years. She was described in her nomination as "one of the foremost and influential figures in the last 30 years." She received a Bachelor of Science from Brown University and a master’s and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
The Richard G. Osgood, Jr. Memorial Lectureship in Geology was established in 1981 and endowed by his three sons in memory of their father, a paleontologist with an international reputation who taught at Wooster from 1967-81. Funds from this endowment are used to bring a well-known scientist interested in paleontology and/or stratigraphy to the campus each year to lecture and meet with students.
Raymo’s lecture is sponsored by the department of earth sciences and the Richard G. Osgood, Jr. Memorial Lecture Endowed Fund. Additional information is available by phone at 330-263-2380 or email at preeder@wooster.edu.