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Climate-change expert to speak Oct. 23

Susan Solomon, chief scientist in charge of climate-change research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will deliver the annual Chemistry Alumni Lecture on campus Oct. 23 at 4 p.m.

Solomon’s lecture, in Room 430 of the Chemistry Building, is entitled “A Tale for Our Times: Climate Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”

The lecture, open free to the public, is part of the annual Chemistry Alumni Appreciation Lecture and Dinner. The department of chemistry is part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Solomon is widely recognized as one of the world’s leaders in the field of atmospheric science. She is known for pioneering the theory explaining how and why the ozone hole occurs in the winter over Antarctica, and she obtained some of the first experimental measurements that helped to establish that chlorofluorocarbons are its cause.

She is a recipient of numerous prizes including the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Foundation in Japan. Solomon is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and the European Academy of Sciences. Her current research includes climate change, ozone depletion and the links between them.