FAU TO HOST
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
Virtual Wildfires: Computer Simulation for Prevention and Control

WHAT: Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will host a lecture entitled "Virtual Wildfires: Computer Simulation for Prevention and Control" as part of its Frontiers of Science Lecture Series.

WHEN: Thursday, November 17, 2005
3:30 p.m.

WHERE: FAU Boca Raton Campus
Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center
Room 126

COST: Free and open to the public

CONTACT NUMBER: 561-297-1307

DESCRIPTION: Howard Hanson, PhD., associate vice president for FAU's Division of Research and Graduate Studies, will describe new insights into the prevention and control of wildfires as part of the Frontiers of Science lecture series at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. A certified consulting meteorologist, Hanson was fellow (1986-1997) and executive associate director (1993-1997) at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Research Laboratories. Hanson is also the author of Four Corners Mysteries, a series of mystery novels.