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AMOS, Will »


Director, Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic
Part-time professor
Faculty of Law

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Office: (613)562-5800 (3378)
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William Amos is a public interest environmental lawyer and is the Director of the uOttawa-Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic, where he has taught in both French and English since March 2007.  He manages a variety of litigation files and law reform projects.  He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Quebec, Ontario and B.C. Courts of Appeal, the Ontario Superior and Divisional Courts, the Quebec Superior Court, the Ontario Municipal Board, and the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. He has expert knowledge in the areas of offshore drilling law, environmental tort law (nuisance, negligence), species-at-risk law, expropriation law and environmental rights law.

Will has previously served as counsel with the Canadian Radioâ??Television and Telecommunications Commission and the law firm of Heenan Blaikie L.L.P. in Montreal. He has worked internationally with the Mexican Environmental Law Centre (CEMDA) and as a consultant for the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a special assistant in the federal Environment Minister and the Prime Ministerâ??s Offices. 

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English and French , espagnol / Spanish

AUDET, Pascal »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2344)
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Fault zone structure and earthquake processes in subduction zones; Earth's crustal structure and plate tectonics; Analysis of gravity fields of terrestrial planets

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English and French

BAKER, R Tom »


Director, CCRI
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Chemistry

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Office: 613-562-5800 (5698)
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Research in the Baker group focuses on catalysis approaches to green and sustainable chemistry including hydrogen storage, biomass conversion and fluorocarbon synthesis.

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BROWN, Adam Oliver »


Adam Oliver Brown

Science Lecturer
Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Biology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6308)
Cell: 613-558-2326
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I am an ecologist with an expertise in science communication to the general public, the public understanding of science, the scholarship of teaching and learning Science, as well as working to develop effective teaching techniques and technologies to help students learn Biology at the undergraduate level of University. I have also been involved in the production, scripting and hosting of TV and radio shows and documentaries (CBC The Nature of Things, TVOkids Finding Stuff Out & The Prime Radicals).

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CLARK, Ian D. »


Director of Geochemistry and Isotope Laboratories
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6834)
Home: 613-595-2155
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Hydrogeology, with expertise in isotope hydrology – the use of isotopes as tracers of water and solute movement. The geochemistry and contamination of groundwater. Issues regarding the safe burial of nuclear waste and radionuclide transport in the environment. Study of past climates and the impacts of climate warming on hydrology in the Arctic.

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COPLAND, Luke »


Luke Copland

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2826)
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My research focuses on improving our understanding of glacier dynamics and recent changes of ice masses, and their links to climate change. This involves making measurements using both satellite imagery and fieldwork. In recent years I have undertaken fieldwork in the Canadian High Arctic, Yukon, Antarctica and Himalayas.

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CRABBÉ, Philippe »


Emeritus Professor
Emeritus professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Economics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1430)
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Natural resources (oil, gas, water). Energy. Environment (climate change, sustainable development).

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ELGIE, Stewart »


Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2525)
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Environmental / natural resources law and policy, including forests, wildlife (species), parks, pollution, and climate change / global warming (Kyoto). Environmental economics, and economic approaches to environmental protection (especially for climate change). The Constitution and the environment. Aboriginal rights and the environment. International trade and the environment (NAFTA).

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FALL, Mamadou »


PhD
Associate professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6558)
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Mine waste, nuclear waste, landslide, geotechnical engineering, landfill.

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English and French , German

FORTIN, Danielle »


Danielle FORTIN

Dr.
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 562-5800 (6423)
Home: 613-244-1151
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E-mail

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Geomicrobiology: interactions between bacteria-metals-rocks in natural environments, such mining environments and deep-sea vents. Characterization of biogenic minerals: can they be used as indicators of past and present life in Earth and on Mars?

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FOWLER, Anthony D. »


Associate professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6273)
Home: 613-445-3528
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Deciphering patterns in minerals and rocks; information about frequency of volcano eruptions or formation of ore deposits.

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FREEMAN, Aaron »


MR.
Part-time professor
Faculty of Law

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Office: 613-564-0007
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Environment, toxics, pollution, nature, ecology, Kyoto Protocol, climate change, global warming, endangered species, energy efficiency, ecological fiscal reform, Great Lakes, advocacy, elections, electoral law and politics, ethics in government, whistleblowers, access to information, patronage, government appointments, lobbying and lobbyists, party politics, parliamentary procedure, democratic deficit

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GAJEWSKI, Konrad »


Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1057)
Office: 613-562-5800 (1327)
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Climate change and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, especially northern Canada. Reconstructing past climates (last 20,000 years) using fossils in lake sediments.

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HEYES, Anthony »


Senior Canada Research Chair in Environmental Economics
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Economics

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Environmental economics and policy, climate change policy, carbon tax, nuclear power policy, economic regulation, energy economics

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LAGUË, Claude »


Dean
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6175)
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Academic leadership Engineering education Engineering of agricultural machinery systems Environmental impacts of agricultural activities and operations

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LALONDE, André E. »


Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6859)
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Minéralogie des micas et autres silicates en couches, minéralogie des syénites, oxydation dans les processus pétrogénétiques, méthodes analytiques en minéralogie et géochimie, amiante et santé, enfouissement souterrain des déchets radioactifs. / Mineralogy of micas and other sheet silicates, oxidation in petrogenetic processes, analytical methods in mineralogy, asbestos and health, underground disposal of radioactive waste.

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LAST, John M. »


Emeritus professor
Faculty of Medicine
Epidemiology and Community Medicine

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8285)
Office: 613-562-5410
Home: 613-233-4859
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Health impacts of global environmental changes and the ethical and policy implications. Ethical, moral and philosophical aspects and implications of global change including climate change, resource depletion, loss of sustainability.

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LEWKOWICZ, Antoni »


Antoni LEWKOWICZ

Dean of the Faculty of Arts / Doyen de la Faculté des arts
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5705
Home: 613-230-7647
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I am an expert on the effects of climate warming on polar regions, especially on permafrost, the landscape, and northerners. I currently work in the Yukon and the Canadian High Arctic on subjects such as measuring recent changes in permafrost temperatures, predicting current permafrost distribution and rates of thaw, and landsliding. This research is relevant to hazard prediction and the development of roads and pipelines, as well as adaptation to climate change in the North. I am currently Senior Vice-President of the International Permafrost Association and will become President in 2012.

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MORIN, Antoine »


Department chairperson
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Biology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4549)
Home: 819-607-4313
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Website

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E-mail

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Écologie des écosystèmes d'eau courante. Biologie et écologie des insectes aquatiques. Écologie et contrôle des mouches noires. Transferts d'énergie dans les chaînes alimentaires. Conséquences des activités humaines sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes aquatiques.

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MURTY, Tad »


Adjunct Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Home: 613-739-5445
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E-mail, Home Telephone

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Tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones, storm surges, hurricanes, river foods, climate change,computer models, hurricane warning systems, tsunami warning systems, disaster mitigation, coastal zone management, marine environment, atmospheric environment, severe storms, tornados, droughts, hurricanes, storm surges,  ocean waves, natural hazards, early warning systems,  disaster mitigation.

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English only, Two languages of India (Telugu and Hindi)

NISTOR, Ioan »


Full Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6147)
Cell: 613-298-8197
Home: 613-738-0006
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Website

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Fluid Dynamics, Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport, Numerical Methods in Hydraulics, Design of Ports and Coastal Protection Works, Coastal Zone Management, Hydrotechnical Constructions (dams, dikes, spillways, derivation works, pumping stations), Dam Safety Analysis, Flooding Prevention and Control, Hydrologic Studies, Tsunamis and storm surges

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English and French , Romanian

PATERSON, Matthew »


Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1716)
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I am a specialist principally on climate change politics, particularly on international climate change negotiations, climate change policy in a range of countries (Canada, US, EU, in particular), carbon markets, and novel governance initiatives to deal with the problem. More generally I am a specialist on the political economy of environmental problems.

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PLOEGER, Kate »


PhD Student
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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My research focus is earthquakes in Ottawa including wide range of scenarios/damage projections (specifically building damage and casualties) for downtown Ottawa. Earthquake loss estimations.

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POTWOROWSKI, André »


Dr.
Part-time professor
Telfer School of Management

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Office: 613-746-9600
Cell: 613-791-9600
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My work focuses on identifying barriers to innovation or change that would lead to a sustainable society. This includes not only legal, but regulatory and administrative barriers, such as leasing agreements, standards, codes or ways of measuring energy savings. This is a way of applying change management principles to the transition to a sustainable society.

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RAMISCH, Joshua »


Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4421)
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Food security, agriculture, food policy, food aid, peasant farming, globalization, international development, development project management, African environmental issues, African social change, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, NGOs in Africa.

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REIS, Giuliano »


Associate professor
Faculty of Education

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4497)
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E-mail

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My research interests include science and environmental education in diverse learning settings, science and the environment in the media, public understanding of science, teacher education, qualitative research and discourse analysis.

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English and French , Portuguese

RENNIE, Colin »


Director, Civil Engineering Hydraulics Laboratory
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6124)
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Professor Rennie is a river engineer, with expertise in fluvial and environmental hydraulics. His research focuses on flow-sediment interactions and river morphodynamics. This research can be applied to a range of issues, including river channel stability, flood control, hydroelectric development, channel design and river corridor restoration, bridge crossings, aquatic habitat, and river water quality.

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ROBIN, Michel J.L. »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6852)
Home: 819-682-3636
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Office Telephone

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Étude des eaux souterraines, écoulements et contamination.

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SAAVEDRA-VARGAS, Marcelo »


Professor
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Cell: 613-762-7822
Home: 613-837-0058
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Indigenous perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions, indigenous epistemologies, development, globalization, sustainable development, indigenous governance

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English and French , Spanish

SAWADA, Michael Charles »


Michael Charles Sawada

Associate Professor Geographic Information Systems and Geomatics
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1040)
Office: 613-562-5800 (2293)
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Website

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E-mail

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My main field of research is applied Geomatics. Geomatics consists of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Global Positioning systems(GPS), Spatial Analysis, Cartography, and Geodesy. Like information systems in general, geomatics is an enabling science that extends the IT model into the geographic realm with techniques and methods applicable to almost every conceivable discipline. For example, I currently have active projects in fields including: disaster mapping of tsunami devestated regions in the Bay of Bengal, health geography/epidimiology, wireless telecommunications, precision agriculture, and Quaternary climate change among others. Geomatics underlies our everyday activities as the science is used for both the planning and management of anything that exists in geographic space.

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SEIDOU, Ousmane »


Assistant professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6143)
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Website

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Hydrological modelling; Extreme events; Climate change and water; Adaptation to climate change.

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SIMARD, Louis »


Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1958)
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E-mail

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Public policies, environment, energy, public participation, instruction of public action

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Français seulement

SIOUI, Georges »


Coordinator, Aboriginal Studies Program
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1165)
Cell: 819-639-1789
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Études autochtones, histoire amérindienne, histoire autochtone, culture, spiritualité, philosophie,éducation, peuples indigènes, peuples minoritaires, études canadiennes.

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TEZEL, F. Handan »


Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Engineering
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5915
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Website

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Adsorption for Gas and Liquid Separation Applications. Carbon Capture and Recycle. Energy Storage for Solar Energy and Excess Thermal Energy Applications. Environmental Engineering. Nanomaterials. Production of Bio-Fuels (bio-ethanol and Bio-butanol) from Agricultural Waste Renewable Energy. Sustainable Development.

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English only, Turkish

VEIZER, Jan »


Distinguished University Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6461)
Home: 613-741-9801
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Office Telephone

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Earth, life, oceans, atmosphere, resources and environment evolved on a geological time scale. Lessons this knowledge has for present environment issues.

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English only, allemand, slovaque, tchèque / German, Slovak, Czech

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