Hello all,

As part of the CE299 “Great Lakes Science and Engineering” class that I am co-teaching this semester, we are hosting award-winning author Dan Egan tomorrow night at Fowler Hall.  See below for details – Dan is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes”.

Hope to see some of you there!

Cary Troy

Cary D. Troy, Professor

Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering

Co-lead, Great Lakes Science Initiative, Institute for a Sustainable Future

Purdue University

550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051

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Physical office: HAMP 1101D

Webex online meeting room: https://purdue.webex.com/meet/troy

Website:  https://troylabpurdue.org

Email:  troy@purdue.edu

Office phone:765-494-3844; Office: HAMP 1101D

Twitter:  @TroyLab_Purdue

Dialogue with Dan Egan, author of the Death and Life of the Great Lakes

https://www.purdue.edu/academics/ogsps/ese/symposium/keynote.html

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Fowler Hall, Stewart Center

Refreshments, 6:00-7:00 PM EST

Dialogue with Dan Egan, 7:00-8:00 PM EST

Book Signing to Follow, 8:00-9:00 PM EST

Both The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance and The Death and Life of the Great Lakes will be available for purchase at the event by a local bookstore.

 Dan Egan for many years covered the Great Lakes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Now he writes occasional long-form pieces about climate change for national media outlets, including the New York Times, and is a senior water policy fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences. He is the author of THE DEVIL'S ELEMENT: PHOSPHORUS AND A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE and the New York Times best seller THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT LAKES. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he has won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, John B. Oakes Award, AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, and J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and children.