The Friends of the ODU Libraries present Dr. David J. Burdige, Professor and Eminent Scholar in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at ODU.
Writing Books in the Sciences: Giving New Meaning to "Publish or Perish"
Dr. David J. Burdige is a professor and eminent scholar in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, where he has been a faculty member since 1985. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is an internationally-known expert in marine geochemistry, and has spent much of his career studying biogeochemical processes in marine and estuarine sediments and their resulting effects on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and trace metals such as iron, manganese and copper. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, and in 2006 authored the book Geochemistry of Marine Sediments, published by Princeton University Press. He received a B.A. (with Honors) in chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1978, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego in 1983. In addition to his research efforts, Dr. Burdige has developed and taught courses in global environmental change at the graduate and undergraduate level. He recently began teaching a course for non-science majors more specifically focused on understanding global climate change, which can be used by ODU students to satisfy the undergraduate natural science general education requirement.
Join us on Thursday, October 22 at 7:00 PM in the Learning Commons @ Perry Library (Room 1310-1311). The event is free and open to the public!
Free parking will be available in Parking Garage B, levels 3 and 4* (Turn west on 43rd Street; turn right into Parking Garage B, just past Perry Library).
RSVP to LibraryEvents@odu.edu