A Princeton University scientist who has looked at ways to help solve global warming will give West Virginia Universitys 2007 Benedum Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Room 202 of Brooks Hall (reception to follow).

Stephen W. Pacala, director of the Princeton Environmental Institute, will speak onEquitable Solutions to Greenhouse Warming: On the Distribution of Wealth, Emissions and Responsibility Within and Between Nations.

Pacala, Frederick D. Petrie Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, co-directs the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, a project which looks at greenhouse and global warming issues. The goal of the initiative is for researchers to develop strategies to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions that will be safe, effective and affordable.

Pacalas current research focuses on forests and the global carbon cycle.

He has served on the Board of Trustees of Environmental Defense; Community Climate System Model Advisory Board; and Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA panels.

In addition, Pacala has been an associate editor of The American Naturalist and Theoretical Population Biology. He also previously served on the editorial boards for Ecological Applications and Global Change Biology.

Pacalas work has been published in Science, Scientific American, Ecology, Nature, Global Change Biology and American Naturalist. To view selected publication abstracts, go tohttp://www.eeb.princeton.edu/FACULTY/Pacala/abstracts.htm.

His television appearances includeGlobal Warming: What You Need to Knowwith Tom Brokaw on the Discovery Channel andCan We Save Planet Earthwith David Attenborough on the BBC . Both aired in 2006.

Pacala, who has a doctorate in biology from Stanford University, has received numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences this year.

Tuesdays lecture is co-sponsored by the Claude Worthington Benedum Endowment and the Office of the Provost and coordinated by the distinguished and chaired professors of WVU .