The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) is hosting two Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholars, demographer Michael Teitelbaum and volcanologist Steven Sparks, during the 2006-2007 school year.
Teitelbaum hopes to bring together faculty and students across the campus -- from Science Hill to Yale College to the Law School to the School of Medicine -- who share interests in demographic data and analyses. He will also be working on a new book on very low fertility rates and its causes and implications.
Teitelbaum was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his D.Phil in demography. His research and writings have addressed a wide range of demographic subjects, including the demographic transition in Europe and in the developing world, historical and recent patterns of very low fertility and international migration. He has been a faculty member at Oxford and Princeton universities, and in 2003 taught a seminar on demography at Yale.
Currently vice president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York, Teitelbaum also worked at the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also the director of the only Congressional committee on demography. With assistance from Professor Robert Wyman, Teitelbaum is organizing a campus-wide seminar series on demography and population research, with support from YIBS and the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.
Sparks is world-renowned for his research on the generation of melts and the role of fluids in earth's crust, the transport of debris avalanches and submarine currents during volcanic eruptions, and the prediction of eruptions and analysis of volcanic time series. While at Yale he will be based in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, where he will consider two major issues: global risks from extreme natural hazards and access to scientific knowledge in the developing world.
Sparks is director of the Research Center for Environmental and Geophysical Flows at the University of Bristol, England. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Geophysical Union. He was formerly chief scientist at Montserrat Volcano Observatory.
He is involved in the Global Risk Identification Programme, which is supported by the World Bank and the United Nations. His collaborations with scientists from the developing world have led to his engagement in issues such as training and knowledge transfer, incentives to pursue a science career in the originating country, and access to research funds to participate in international science.
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