Public Lectures

Each year, AGCI hosts several public talks featuring leading global change researchers and practitioners. Presented by participants in AGCI’s signature workshop series, these lectures cover the gamut of global change topics from biodiversity threats to urban heat resilience to the history and future of Earth’s climate trajectory. AGCI’s public lecture series honors Walter Orr Roberts (1915-1990), noted humanitarian, scientist, and founder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Our Eye on the Sun


At this lecture, Dr. Tom Woods, a Principal Investigator for SDO offers an overview of the solar influence on Earth and present dazzling new movies of the Sun from SDO.

June 15, 2010

Tom Woods

Given Institute Lecture Hall
September 22, 2009

Eric Kuhn

Given Institute
October 24, 2008

Rosamond Lee Naylor

Aspen CO
June 25, 2008

Lisa Goddard

Aspen
August 15, 2007

Herman H. Shugart

Aspen
August 2, 2006

Peter Michael Cox

Aspen