"Brannen is a companionable guide, as good at breathing life into the fossilized prose of scientific papers as he is at conjuring the Ordovician reign of the nautiloids." - The New York Times Book Review

"Brannen offers an important education, making an argument for how better understanding what's happened can help us determine how to move forward." - Boston Globe

Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate and The Boston Globe, among other publications. His first book, The Ends of the World: Volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand earth's past mass extinctions (Ecco 2017) is an examination of each of the planet's five previous "dead ends" and their causes. Brannen's exploration of deep time and the history of carbon dioxide-driven climate change offers a glipse of what is to come.

Peter Brannen will present his lecture, "Putting the Anthropocene in Context: Global Catastrophes in Deep Time", Thursday, February 13th, 2020 from 5:00-6:30pm in the Kreindler Conference Room, Haldeman 041.

This event is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities and by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.

This lecture is free and open to the public.