ESE-faculty-list Open Letter: Concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture from C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA

[Ma, Zhao]

Dr. Heber,

Thank you for expressing your opinion. It is completely voluntary for anyone to sign or not sign the Open Letter. I will leave it up to you in terms of what you do.

Respectfully,

Zhao Ma, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Professor | University Faculty Scholar
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Purdue University
195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2033, USA
+1-765-494-1790; zhaoma at purdue.edu<mailto:zhaoma at purdue.edu>

Acknowledgement of Indigenous Caretakers: We acknowledge the traditional homelands of the Indigenous People which Purdue University is built upon. We honor and appreciate the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami), and Shawnee People who are the original Indigenous caretakers.


From: Heber, Albert <heber at purdue.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 11:29 AM
To: Ma, Zhao <zhaoma at purdue.edu>; ese-faculty-list at ecn.purdue.edu
Cc: Heber, Albert <heber at purdue.edu>
Subject: RE: Open Letter: Concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture from C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA

Dr. Ma,

I am opposed to this attempt to cancel Dr. Koonin's "Conversation about Climate and Energy". He recently published a book entitled "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters<https://benbellabooks.com/shop/unsettled/>".  He has impeccable credentials and should be given the opportunity to speak on campus.

Respectfully,

Albert J. Heber, Ph.D., PE
Professor Emeritus
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Purdue University
205 S. University St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-412-4201
Cell: 765-412-4201
Email: heber at purdue.edu<mailto:heber at purdue.edu>



From: Ese-faculty-list <ese-faculty-list-bounces at ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:ese-faculty-list-bounces at ecn.purdue.edu>> On Behalf Of Ma, Zhao
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 2:45 PM
To: ese-faculty-list at ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:ese-faculty-list at ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: ESE-faculty-list Open Letter: Concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture from C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA

Dear members of the Purdue community,

We are members of the Purdue University Center for the Environment (C4E) Building Sustainable Communities (BSC) Signature Research Area (SRA). We are writing to share with you an Open Letter written by members of our SRA to express our concerns about the upcoming Presidential Lecture on October 19, 2021.

We recognize that this Open Letter may not completely reflect the feelings and thoughts of each of us; at the same time, we feel it is important to have a response to the upcoming Presidential Lecture. More specifically, if you are also concerned about this upcoming Presidential Lecture, we want to let you know that you are not alone, and we understand and share your concerns. If you are concerned about climate change but have not had the opportunity to follow climate science on campus and more broadly, we want to let you know that the upcoming Presidential Lecture speaker does not represent the current state of knowledge in climate science, and many of the speaker's claims made in the past were misleading and harmful.

We invite you to read and sign our Open Letter to demonstrate your concerns about this upcoming Presidential Lecture and to support rigorous, evidence-based climate science on campus and more broadly.

You can read our Open Letter here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRmiDZLiMEHXRUeNHAlcZ2e5mmBOsS5edBFSAOlAxk7_-AxVaSqY1-xU8m_PesiXBW2FajQ4bFBjATu/pub>.
You can sign our Open Letter here<https://forms.gle/FfxuFftXuabKF1xM7>.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Members of the C4E Building Sustainable Communities SRA


Zhao Ma, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Professor | University Faculty Scholar
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Agriculture, Purdue University
195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2033, USA
+1-765-494-1790; zhaoma at purdue.edu<mailto:zhaoma at purdue.edu>

Acknowledgement of Indigenous Caretakers: We acknowledge the traditional homelands of the Indigenous People which Purdue University is built upon. We honor and appreciate the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami), and Shawnee People who are the original Indigenous caretakers.

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