My interests and activities are broad, but all revolve around the theme of making the world (universe(s)?) a better place. I conduct research that combines science, engineering, and ethics to assess what, given present circumstances and particular ethical frameworks, might be the best thing(s) for us to be doing. I also help organize academic and professional communities to advance work on these topics.
I am currently a Post-Doctoral Scholar in Pennsylvania State University's Geography Department, a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Co-Founder (with Tony Barrett) and Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, and an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. My dissertation research, with advisor Bill Easterling, is on the ethics and moral psychology of discounting in the context of climate change assessment. My primary ongoing project is on reducing global catastrophic risk, which is anything that could end human civilization or even cause human extinction.
CV: click here (pdf)
Contact info: seth [at] gcrinstitute.org
Networking: Facebook * LinkedIn * Twitter * Association of American Geographers * Society for Risk Analysis * United States Society for Ecological Economics
At present I am particularly interested in networking with people who are or would like to be working on any aspect of global catastrophic risk.
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Updates:
16 May 2012: I have a new article at FutureChallenges.org: Curing Aging Could Transform Society
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Upcoming Conferences:
World Congress on Risk, 18-20 July 2012, Sydney.
Society for Risk Analysis, 9-12 December 2012, San Francisco.
Other Travel:
During 6 July to 17 July 2012, I will be visiting the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto.
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Created 15 Jun 2007 * Updated 16 May 2012