History of Science Lecture Series

History of Science Lecture
Waters of the World: The Story of Climate in Six Remarkable Lives

Tuesday, February 4
5:00 p.m.
Dilworth Room
A book signing and sale will follow the lecture

Sarah Dry
Writer and Historian of Science

We now take it for granted that Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change, this idea has a history. It was forged by scientists studying water in its myriad forms. In this talk, Sarah Dry will explore the stories of six remarkable men and women who traveled to some of the remotest places on Earth to study the role of the oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets in generating our shared global climate. Spanning the 1850s to the 1970s, this story demonstrates just how hard-won and personal our collective knowledge of the planet is.