Global Environmental Disasters Panel
From Hurrican Katrina to the infamous Seveso, Italy chemical explosion, various man-made and human-induced environmental disasters have occurred in the past one-hundred years. This panel will focus on the detrimental impacts, physical and mental, sustained by the people affected by these global catastrophes and the impact and lessons that are still felt from them today.
Brian Mcadoo
In 1994, he started his Ph.D. research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, by going on a month-long research cruise to the Cascadia accretionary prism, where he went to the bottom of the ocean in the research submarine Alvin. His current research involves studying the role of landslides in sea fl oor landscape evolution and tsunami sedimentation. McAdoo teaches Oceanography, Global Geophysics and Tectonics, and Carbon Confl icts at Vassar College.
Jonathan Borak
Dr. Borak’s research interests are in the areas of environmental and industrial toxicology, biological and clinical surveillance of toxic exposures, environmental and workplace exposure assessments, and risk assessment of susceptible populations. Recent research projects have focused on issues such as the assessment of occupational exposures to diesel exhaust, historical reconstructions of silica particulate exposures, clinical assessment of beryllium-related diseases, and the risk assessment implications of seafood arsenic.
Cami McCormick
Cami McCormick is a distinguished CBS correspondent who has fi rst-hand experience with many catastrophic environmental disasters. She has been commended for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. She is one of the most decorated radio anchors in the media, having never shied away from a hurricane, earthquake, or other natural disaster.