Environmental Challenges Focus of Lecture by London College Professor

During the past 20 years, there have been great improvements in weather forecasting and environmental prediction, including air pollution tracking, thanks to advances in basic science, computer technology and satellite data. Where the data has been put to use, such improvements have contributed to economic and environmental benefit, according to an environmental expert who will speak on the University of Houston campus Monday, Nov. 25.

Lord Julian Hunt, professor of climate modeling at University College London, says that applying these advanced methods to climate and long term environmental change raises difficult research issues that have not been entirely resolved, and he will discuss those issues during his talk.

Hunt also will address how predictions based on present incomplete environmental modeling can affect practical responses to issues such as coastal defenses and urban planning.

In addition to his academic position, Hunt is chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants LTD, an organization that he helped establish to study global pollution modeling and forecasting. In his research, Hunt has developed new approaches to modeling turbulence, atmospheric flows around buildings and over mountains, and the dispersion of environmental pollution.

Hunt's talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Texas Learning and Computation Center at the University of Houston. For more information, call 713-743-3361.

WHAT: "Developments in the Predictions and Responses to Climate and Environmental Change."

WHEN: Monday, Nov. 25, 2002 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Alumni Center Great Hall, University of Houston Public parking Entrance 16

WHO: Lord Julian Hunt, professor of climate modeling, University College London

For More Information Contact:

Texas Learning and Computation Center
218 Philip G Hoffman Hall University of Houston
Tel: 713-743-3361
FAX: 713-743-3376
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