Final Math-Science Seminar

by Jack Hutton

The next Math-Science Seminar (the final one of this academic year) will be taking place this upcoming Wednesday, June 10th, in the high school auditorium at 7:00 P.M. It will last approximately one hour.

Steve Aldrich, a 1973 graduate of Bronxville High School and a 1978 graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Evolutionary Biology, will be presenting the following:

“Rising Waters: A Process to Prepare for the Impacts of Climate Change.” Steve will present the methodology and results of a year-long multi-stakeholder process to strengthen the capacity of Hudson Valley communities to withstand the expected impacts of climate change, and discuss how the method and results apply to the Bronxville community.

Everyone is welcome to attend: family, friends, colleagues.

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Steve Aldrich is a graduate of Bronxville High School (1973), and the founder and President of Bio Economic Research Associates LLC (bio-eraTM).

After graduating from BHS, Steve went on to study evolutionary biology at Harvard College (1978) before entering a career in business. In 1984, he joined Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) where he co-founded and developed the natural gas practice over a 15 year period, serving as an analyst and advisor to major energy companies and others on strategic issues in the North American natural gas industry. In 2000, he left CERA to help found Powersteering Software, Inc., before launching bio-era in 2002. Bio-era is an independent research and consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and serving a broad range of corporate, non-profit, and government clients. The firm’s mission is to provide independent, expert research and consulting services on the social and economic consequences of human-induced change to biological systems. The firm has four principal practice areas:

• Infectious Disease Emergence
• Enabling Biotechnology
• Biofuels
• Climate Change

Steve is the author or co-author of numerous articles, books, and reports including:

“Using Scenarios to Understand the Impact of an Avian Influenza Pandemic” (2005)
“Genome Synthesis and Design Futures: Implications for the US Economy” (2007)
“The Big Squeeze: New Fundamentals for Food and Fuel Markets” (2008)
“Rising Waters: Helping Hudson Valley Communities Adapt to Climate Change” (2009)

More to be found at: www.bio-era.net