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Feb. 3, 2009

Sundareshwar to present DWU Carhart Lecture

MITCHELL – Pallaoor V. Sundareshwar, state carbon scientist and assistant professor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), will present the annual Carhart Lectures in Natural Science at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Sundareshwar will discuss “Effects of Global Warming” at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 in the Sherman Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sundareshwar has been at SDSMT since 2003 in the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. He is also the director of the biogeochemistry core facility and program chair of the Ph.D. program in atmosphere and environmental sciences. He has served as the state carbon scientist since 2005.

A native of India, Sundareshwar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Bombay. He completed his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of South Carolina at Columbia.

Sundareshwar is an ecosystem ecologist with broad research interests that include: nutrient biogeochemical interactions across trophic levels in coastal ecosystems; ecosystem response to global environmental change; and land use and biogeochemical cycling. His research seeks to understand how earth’s natural systems are functionally interrelated and modified by human behavior.

The Carhart Lectures were endowed by DWU alumnus Homer Carhart ’36, whose engineering firm provided services to the armed forces for many years. He was one of the panel of experts who investigated the explosion aboard the spaceship Challenger.

For more information on the Carhart Lectures in Natural Science, contact Jim Lefferts, associate professor of chemistry/physics, at 995-2706 or JiLeffer@dwu.edu.