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Environmental Conversations - The Climate Challenge: Is it time to go Nuclear?

Public scholarship and public outreach is an important goal for the Center for Environmental Politics. Environmental Conversations feature prominent environmental leaders/practitioners who share their perspectives on real-world environmental policy making. During 2019-2020, in collaboration with the EarthLab, the Center for Environmental Politics will host three Walker Conversations. These events will be held in the Allen Library's Petersen Room, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm

Fall Quarter
The Climate Challenge: Is it time to go Nuclear?
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Speaker: James Conca

Geochemist and Energy scientist, speaker and author Dr. James Conca is Senior Scientist for UFA Ventures, Inc. in the Tri-Cities, WA, an Adjunct Professor at Washington State University in the School of the Environment, a Trustee of the Herbert M. Parker Foundation, an Affiliate Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Science Contributor to Forbes on energy and nuclear issues.

Conca obtained a Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1985, a Masters in Planetary Science in 1981, and a Bachelors in Geology and Biochemistry from Brown University in 1979.