Annual Sea Grant Lecture: Climate and the Oceans: Where Weíve Been and Whatís Ahead

Dr. Wallace Broecker, the Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, delivered the 2011 MIT Sea Grant Lecture, ìClimate and the Oceans: Where Weíve Been and Whatís Ahead,î at Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center at MIT. Broecker has been described as one of the world’s greatest living geoscientists, “a genius and a pioneer” and “the Grandfather of climate science.” His visionary work have earned him the National Medal of Science and the Tyler Prize, among many other awards.