Evening Lectures - Ocala
Daniel Britt
THE TALK: Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate
Climate change has become a major political issue, but few understand how climate has changed in the past and the forces that drive climate. Most people don’t know that 50 million years ago there were breadfruit trees and crocodiles on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, or that 18,000 years ago there was a mile-thick glacier on Manhattan and a continuous belt of winter sea ice extending south to Cape Hatteras. The History of Climate provides context of our current climate debate and fundamental insight how the climate works.
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Biography
Dr. Daniel Britt is the Pegasus Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Central Florida. He was educated in geology at the University of Washington and Brown University. He has had a varied career including service in the U.S. Air Force as an ICBM missile launch officer and an economist for Boeing before going into planetary sciences. He has served on the science teams of four NASA missions to Mars, comets and asteroids. His current research focuses on the physical properties and mineralogy of asteroids, comets, the Moon, and Mars. He is the director of the Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (CLASS). He has served as chairman of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society and the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. His honors include eight NASA Achievement Awards and an asteroid named after him; 4395 DanBritt.
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