This event is part of the Austin College Earth Systems and Global Change Science Lecture Series funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). For more information, contact Jan Beckert at (903) 813-2034 or visit the related website at http://www.austincollege.edu/Category.asp?1450.

North is a distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University in College Station. He majored in physics at the University of Tennessee and earned a doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of Wisconsin. He did postdoctoral research in physics at the University of Pennsylvania and spent 10 years as a physics professor at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. He spent eight years as a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center before taking the position at Texas A&M.