[Mitworld] Christopher Reddy on Oil and Ecosystems, Panel on President Obama at Mid-term

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 24 |  January 13, 2011

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Mixing Oil and Ecosystems
November 10, 2010

“An oil spill is a crime scene,” says Christopher Reddy, but quite unlike the kind in TV whodunits, 
where fictional forensic whizzes help nail down perpetrators with an arsenal of lab tools. For Reddy, 
a chemist involved in analyzing oil spills, investigations take years, and do not always yield 
certain results.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/862

Speaker:
Christopher Reddy
Marine Chemist and Director, Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"Any scientist who is careful will say, 'What is the data telling me and what can I get out of it 
without somebody putting a black hat on my head and calling me an alchemist.' It’s going to 
be really, really hard."
-Christopher Reddy

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Report Card on President Obama: MIT Experts Assess President Obama on Afghanistan, Climate, and the Economy
November 9, 2010

President Obama scored abysmally on his mid-terms. A trio of MIT professors renders harsh judgment 
on the president half-way through his administration, and their assessments may leave listeners 
“weeping or depressed,” in the words of moderator
Richard Samuels.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/854

Moderator:
Richard Samuels PhD '80
Director, Center for International Studies

Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT

Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"The U.S. runs a big current account deficit. We spend more than we earn relative to the rest of 
world, and much of that current account deficit is imported oil. We finance that by selling treasury 
bills to China. If that sounds like a nonsensical scheme, that’s because you just understood it 
correctly. This is a huge national security issue."
-Simon Johnson

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In The Pipeline:

Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Sanjay Sarma
Professor and Director, MIT/SUTD Collaboration Office
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

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