Physics Seminar: BETWEEN THREE FIRES. HUMANITY CREATES A FIRE AGE.

The Physics seminar for Sept 6, 2024 will be a prerecorded lecture.  We will convene at 3:00 pm on line at https://wright.webex.com/wright/j.php?MTID=m8596a6bc6680206dabeb5826b2c5... to watch and discuss:

The Frontiers of Geophysics lecture presented on December 12, 2023 at the Fall 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting.

Presented by:

Stephen Pyne, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor, University of Arizona

Titled:

BETWEEN THREE FIRES. HUMANITY CREATES A FIRE AGE.

Dr. Stephen Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University and an urban farmer. He has written widely about fire and humanity, including fire histories for the U.S., Australia, Canada, Europe (including Russia), Mexico (in press), and Earth, most recently The Pyrocene. Other books include Grove Karl Gilbert; The Ice (Antarctica); How the Canyon Became Grand; Voyager; The Great Ages of Discovery; and two books on writing nonfiction, Voice and Vision and Style and Story. In an earlier life he spent 15 seasons with the North Rim Longshots, a wildland fire crew at Grand Canyon National Park, and three seasons writing fire plans for Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone National Parks.