UAlbany in the News
by Media & Marketing Staff (January 30, 2006)
- Andrei Lapenis, an associate professor of climatology
in the Department of Geography and Planning,
College of Arts and Sciences, recently led a
study on how trees are adapting to global warming
in the journal Global Climate
Biology. His work
was featured in the Jan. 9 Times
Union article "Climate
change taking root," by Kenneth Aaron.
The article reported: "Warmer, wetter weather
in Russia over the past 40 years has already
changed the way forests there look — and
the implications for future warming aren't
good … 'That means global warming
will come sooner than we might have thought,' said
Lapenis." The research will also be featured
in an upcoming issue of Natural
History Magazine,
a monthly journal focused on the environment,
with a nation-wide circulation of 250,000.
- Richard Perez, a solar energy senior research
associate at the
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, was interviewed for a Jan. 4 Newsday article, "Up ON THE Roof," concerning California environmentalists' fears that the trend toward building solar-powered homes is a leading factor in overdevelopment. Perez, who built his own solar-powered house, provided background on New York's $4-per-watt reimbursement and tax credits for comparative purposes.
- President Kermit L. Hall was interviewed by
several media outlets for his views on the Samuel
Alito nomination for the United States Supreme
Court, and for his opinion on government surveillance.
Outlets included ABC World News Tonight, ABC
Radio news, CNNRadio, WABC Radio's John
Batchelor Show, and Hearst News. In a Dec. 11
Times Union opinion piece headlined "On
spying, Bush defies his own heroes," Hall
wrote, "The framers of the Bill of Rights
fully understood the value of having judges involved
with matters of search and seizure. While they
had no experience with electronic communications,
they grasped the importance of subjecting law
enforcement officials to judicial oversight. … They
were also deeply suspicious of power — period;
they meant to limit it by separating and dividing
those officials responsible for exercising it."
