Dr. Robert Jackson, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University, is also a Senior Fellow with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy, he will be lecturing on the effects of hydraulic fracturing on climate and water quality at Loyola University New Orleans. He studies how people affect the earth, including research on the global carbon and water cycles, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, energy use, and climate change.  Dr. Jackson’s team published the first studies examining fracking and drinking water quality and, with colleagues, mapped thousands of natural gas leaks across multiple cities such as Boston and Washington, D.C. He is also examining the effects of climate change and drought on forest mortality and ecosystems.  

The future of the environment is in our hands. 

Co-sponsored by The Environment Program, The Biology Department, and The Professor Walter G. Moore Endowed Fund in Ecology