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Get a Science Education through these Great AAAS Audio Tapes
Get a Science Education through these Great AAAS Audio Tapes
Date: 2/21/2010 10:51:25 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 2128 times
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LIST OF CD's AND MP3 DOWNLOADS
FROM THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF SCIENCE (AAAS) 2010 ANNUAL MEETING, February 18-22, 2010
CONTACT INFO FOR ORDERING TAPES
FROM the AAAS 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
IN SAN DIEGO
Http://www.aven.com
800.810.8273
JASON MITCHELL recorded many of the sessions
down at the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) 176th Meeting. He had a staff of five
at the event. There were 18 rooms per time slot. 170
sessions were recorded. I want to thank Jason for
a job well done. He has archived a monumental
moment and the value of this audio library,
available both on CD as well as mp3 downloads
is very valuable.
I spent most of yesterday blogging here at home,
and finally got down to the San Diego Convention Center
right before the AAAS Award Ceremony.
I blogged a bit about that here:
PROFOUND AND LIFE SHIFTING EXPERIENCE
AT THE AAAS 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1576571
I was very interested in two of the sessions yesterday,
and one today.
Here are my interests:
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY, LAND USE, and
THE ENVIRONMENT,
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1483.html
Saturday, February 20, 2010: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 11A (San Diego Convention Center)
Agriculture plays a crucial role in sustaining the health, nourishment and economy of the world’s population. At the same time, many agricultural practices can disturb the environment in ways that degrade the quality of our environment and natural resources –- including our climate, soils, waterways, and even the air we breathe. In the coming century, agriculture will be faced with enormous, global-scale challenges, arising from the need to provide food security, economic development, and sustainable environmental services to over 9 billion people. This will be happening at a time where other major global systems -- including our climate, freshwater, population, economic, and ecological systems -- will be stressed beyond any historic levels. Perhaps more than any other issue, how we manage global agriculture will define the success of our civilization in the 21st century. In this session, we will consider the future of global agriculture and ask three critical questions: How can we meet the growing demands for food, feed, and biofuels for a human population that is projected to reach over 9 billion in the coming decades? How will changes in the environment, including global climate change, affect our ability to meet these demands? How can we simultaneously meet our agricultural demands while maintaining a healthy and sustainable biosphere, rich with biodiversity and functioning ecosystem services?
Organizer:
Jonathan A. Foley, University of Minnesota
Co-Organizer:
David Tilman, University of Minnesota
Speakers:
David Lobell, Stanford University
The Effects of Global Climate Change on Food Security
David Tilman, University of Minnesota
Understanding the Present and Projecting the Future of Global Food Demand
Kenneth Cassman, University of Nebraska
What Controls Global Crop Yields?
GETTING TO THE ROOTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1686.html
Saturday, February 20, 2010: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 8 (San Diego Convention Center)
Producing a healthy and sustainable food supply for 10 billion people by 2050 is perhaps the greatest environmental, scientific, and social challenge of the 21st century. Meeting this challenge will require a substantial increase in crop productivity, yet yields in developing countries are limited by drought and poor soil fertility, exacerbated by ongoing soil degradation. At the same time, moreover, there is increasing competition for land use not associated with agriculture. Alleviation of these challenges through intensive fertilization and irrigation is economically and ecologically untenable in the poorest regions with the greatest food insecurity. Our growing understanding of the biology of plant roots has opened the possibility of developing crops with increased yields on poor soils without intensive inputs -- a "second Green Revolution." Three core issues will be addressed in this symposium: first, improving the roots ability to acquire essential nutrients from poor soils by breeding for optimal root architecture; second, developing crops that are tolerant of soils with toxic levels of aluminum, a principal constraint to plant growth in acid soils; and, third, discovering modifications in root function that increase a plant's ability to acquire water under drought conditions. Each speaker will draw on cutting-edge research results as well as high impact studies under field conditions in their talks.
Organizer:
Daniel Bush, Colorado State University
Co-Organizer:
Jonathan Lynch, Pennsylvania State University
Speakers:
Jonathan Lynch, Pennsylvania State University
Roots of the Second Green Revolution
Leon Kochian, Cornell U
My third interest was this talk by
DR. ROBERT FRALEY of the MONSANTO COMPANY.
Robert T. Fraley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto Co., St. Louis
Sunday, February 21, 2010: 12:30 PM-1:15 PM
Room 6C (San Diego Convention Center)
Food and water security. Energy demands. Climate change. Human nutrition and health. These are the looming issues for today’s global society, and agriculture is at the center of them all. Now, more than ever before, the continued growth and development of prosperous, urbanized societies depends upon advancements in sustainable agricultural technology. In order to meet the needs of a projected global population of nine billion, agriculture must produce more food worldwide in the next 50 years than has been produced in the past 10,000. Building upon advances already made in plant breeding and agricultural biotechnology, innovations in the coming decade such as drought tolerance, improved use of nutrients such as nitrogen, enhanced pest resistance, intrinsic yield increases and improved nutritional profiles will be available in crops such as maize and soybean as well as in vegetables. In maize, soybean and cotton, there is a clear path forward to increase yields while at the same time significantly decreasing the key resources (water, land and energy) required to produce each unit of output. Producing more while using less is a guiding philosophy of agricultural research today. Monsanto is a leader in this effort, and its research and development pipeline serves as an excellent illustrative example of what is possible.
Speaker:
Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., Monsanto Co.
BIO NOTE ON DR ROBERT T. FRALEY
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
of Monsanto Co., St Louis, Missouri
Sustainable Solutions for Doubling Crop Productivity by 2030
Dr. Fraley oversees Monsanto's integrated crop and seed agribusiness technology and research with facilities in most world areas. He has been involved in agricultural biotechnology since the early eighties and has been with Monsanto for 25 years. His educational background includes a fellowship from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Ph.D. degree in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Illinois. Dr. Fraley has contributed to years of agricultural development through a number of significant activities, including authoring more than 100 publications and patent applications relating to technical advances in agricultural biotechnology. He received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999.
A more extensive Bio Note on
Dr. Robert T Fraley may be found
on the Monsanto Company site:
http://www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/leadership/fraley_web_bio.asp
HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE OTHER SPEAKERS
IN THE TOPICAL LECTURE SERIES
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010/program/topicals/
CONTACT INFO FOR ORDERING TAPES
FROM the AAAS 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
IN SAN DIEGO
Http://www.aven.com
800.810.8273
8:50 AM
February 21, 2010
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