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BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University Chemistry Professor Mark Bussell will discuss “Oil? Get Over It - One Chemist’s Road Map to Our Post Petroleum Energy Future” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6 at the Bellingham City Council Chambers, second floor, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St. The lecture, free and open to the public, is offered as part of the Science and the univerCity community science lecture series and is sponsored by the WWU College of Sciences and Technology and the City of Bellingham. Global oil production appears to be going the way of U.S. petroleum production, which peaked in 1970. With world-wide oil consumption increasing dramatically, oil production nearing its peak, and evidence for global warming mounting, it's time to take a hard look at our post-petroleum energy future.This talk will examine the history of oil and the controversy of "Peak Oil,” as well as present a possible road map for weaning the world from fossil fuels. Bussell earned a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley, was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, has served as a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and as a visiting professor at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Bussell, who has been on the WWU faculty since 1990, has won numerous and prestigious awards. He has won a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Scholar/Fellow Award for Undergraduate Institutions and the Paul J. Olscamp Outstanding Research Award. “The Science and the univerCity series is part of our ongoing outreach to the community on issues in the sciences, with distinguished teachers and scholars from College departments discussing areas of their expertise,” said Arlan Norman, dean of the College of Sciences and Technology. “We would very much like to express our appreciation to the City of Bellingham for co-sponsoring this talk.” On Nov. 13, Professor Brad Johnson, chair of Western’s Physics/Astronomy Department, discussed “Nanotechnology: What’s So Big About Small?” in the first lecture in the “Science” series to an overflow crowd. The third and final lecture will be on Thursday, April 19. Biology Associate Professor David Hooper will discuss “The Good, the Bad and the Beauty: How Changing Biodiversity Affects You.” |
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