Jack and Laura Dangermond Lecture

Date and Time
Location
Buchanan Hall 1930
Jack and Laura Dangermond Lecture
Reception to Follow
Featuring Guest Speaker, Karen Seto
 
Karent Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at Yale University. She is one of the world’s leading experts on how urbanization will affect the planet. A geographer and urbanization scientist, she is an expert in satellite remote sensing analysis, and has pioneered methods to reconstruct historical urban land-use and developed the first global forecast of urban land expansion. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD in Geography from Boston University.