What are the causes of abrupt climate change? What is behind the rapid melting of ice sheets at the end of glacial cycles? What role do humans play in climate change? Geochemist R. Lawrence Edwards will address these questions when he delivers the National Academy of Sciences’ Day Prize Lecture Series at Oberlin College on November 14, 15, and 21.

Deciphering Climate Change from Underground

Lecture 1: The Timeline for Cave Climate Records
Thu, Nov 14 • 7:30pm • Craig Auditorium

Lecture 2: Stalagmites as Scribes of Climate History
Fri, Nov 15 • Noon • Severance 108

Lecture 3: Monsoons, Ice Ages, and Abrupt Climate Change
Thu, Nov 21 • 7:30pm • Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (formerly West Lecture Hall)

The Day Prize Lecture Series is supported by the National Academy of Sciences, a private nonprofit institution established under a congressional charter signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.  It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and —with the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.