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December 02, 2003 - December 05, 2003

Air Pollution in Asia and its Impact on Regional and Global Climate

Prof. Paul J. Crutzen

Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Washington, D.C.


Keynote Speaker

Prof. Paul J. Crutzen was a member of the Expert Advisory Group on 'Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity' at the European Commission. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1995 for his work in the fields of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and their role in the biochemical cycles and climate. He identified biomass burning, especially in the tropics, as an important source of air pollution with important impacts on earth climate and the ozone layer. He also contributed to studies on the environmental consequences of a nuclear war. Born in Amsterdam in 1933, Paul J. Crutzen was trained as a civil engineer and worked with the Bridge Construction Bureau of the City of Amsterdam. At the Department of Meteorology of the Stockholm University (MISU) he was involved in various meteorological projects like helping to build and run some of the first numerical weather prediction models. He served, among others, as Director of Research at the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and thereafter at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. Prof. Crutzen is the worldwide most citied author in the Geosciences who has received numerous awards such as the Global Ozone Award for 'Outstanding Contribution for the Protection of the Ozone Layer' by UNEP and Honorary Doctoral Degrees from 14 major universities.



Tuesday, December 2, 2003:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Chulalongkorn University: 'Air pollution in Asia and its impact on regional and global climate'

Info and free tickets: Phone (02) 218 3331-5, Fax (02) 216 1299, E-mail int.off@chula.ac.th

19:30 Evening talk and dialogue at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand

Info and tickets: Phone (02) 652 0580-1, Fax (02) 652 0582, E-mail fccthai@loxinfo.co.th

Wednesday, December 3, 2003:

10:30 Keynote speech and dialogue at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (not a public event)

16:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at the Asian Institute of Technology: 'The Antarctic ozone hole - A manmade chemical instability of the stratosphere - What should we learn from it?'

His lecture at AIT will also be LIVE webcasted on www.dec.ait.ac.th/nobel

Info and free tickets: Phone (02) 524 6065, Fax (02) 524 5883, E-mail nittaya@ait.ac.th

Thursday, December 4, 2003:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Chiang Mai University: 'Air pollution in Asia and its impact on regional and global climate'

Info and free tickets: Phone (053) 943 661-5, 224 076 and 941 007, Fax (053) 219 252, 943 666 and 942 666, E-mail opxxo004@chiangmai.ac.th and vpi@chiangmai.ac.th

Friday, December 5, 2003:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Khon Kaen University: 'The Anthropocene: Human activities as a new geological factor'

Info and free tickets: Phone/Fax (043) 202 425, E-mail suwit@kku.ac.th