Ron Sass

Ron Sass
Ronald L. Sass is the Harry C and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Natural Science Emeritus. He has been a member of the Rice faculty since 1958 and past Chairman of the Biology Department, and the Ecology Department. He is currently a Fellow in Climate Science Policy at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy Sass received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Southern California and his B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratories studying neutron scattering. As a Guggenheim Fellow he was a member of the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at Cambridge University. He served as a National Research Council Senior Fellow with NASA at the Langley Research Center in Virginia, Alaska and Canada. Sass's recent interests are in the area of science policy. For the prior twenty- five years his research focused on wetland sources of biogenic radiatively active atmospheric trace gases. He served as a co-convenor of the focus group on Exchange of Methane in Rice Cultivation (RICE). He consulted for the EPA and the UNDP. He also worked with the IPCC to establish guidelines and values for national greenhouse gas inventories throughout the world.

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Michael Quirke of Climate Change National Forum chats with Ben Franta, PhD candidate in Applied Physics at Harvard and board member of Divest Harvard, and Geoffrey Supran, MIT Energy Fellow and member of Fossil Free MIT, about the divestment movement that has gripped many of the nation's campuses this spring. What are the goals of this movement to get organizations, particularly universities, to divest their assets in fossil fuel companies? What are the limitations of the movement? And what of the oft-heard criticisms over the ...