May 2013 Newsletter

Post Date May 13, 2013
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Dear friends,

If there’s one thing we know from the study of risk, it’s that sudden, unexpected events can change the game. So it was for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the subject of a new paper by GCRI Deputy Director Grant Wilson. So too it is right now for GCRI and our parent organization Blue Marble Space, which recently lost its 501c3 tax status. For Deepwater Horizon, the result was several deaths plus massive environmental and economic damage. For GCRI, it means we have to …

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April 2013 Newsletter

Post Date April 08, 2013
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Dear friends,

Ongoing headline news discusses possible global catastrophes. In February, it was a close call with an asteroid. Now, there’s the threat of nuclear war with North Korea. What I’m most worried about is the H7N9 flu virus – see Laurie Garrett’s excellent article Is This a Pandemic Being Born? It can be a lot to keep track of, and so this month GCRI is announcing a new GCR news summary initiative.

We’re also announcing a new research paper focusing on the survivors of global catastrophe. …

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March 2013 Newsletter

Post Date March 07, 2013
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Dear friends,

A lot of the knowledge needed to address global catastrophic risk – and many other issues – is already out there somewhere in the world. But it’s spread across many different people. The challenge then is bringing people together to share and synthesize their knowledge. GCRI is dedicated to meeting this challenge. In this month’s newsletter, we announce three new initiatives on this front. First, we invite you to join us at the 2013 Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, which will be December …

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February 2013 Newsletter

Post Date March 07, 2013
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Note from the editor: GCRI forgot to post the February 2013 Newsletter on our blog last month, so here it is. Enjoy!

Dear friends,

It is always a bittersweet moment when a close colleague moves on with his career. For the last nine months, Tim Maher has been working as a Research Assistant for GCRI through the Bard College M.S. program in Climate Science and Policy. Now Tim is transitioning back to Bard to finish his degree. His presence will be greatly missed. Everywhere you look within …

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January 2013 Newsletter

Post Date January 10, 2013
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Dear friends,

Happy new year. 2012 was GCRI’s first full year in existence. It was a great year for us. We grew from three people to ten, launched a new website, publications, resources for the GCR community, and more. Now, having survived the December 2012 apocalypse, we look forward to an even better 2013.

We’re sending out the January newsletter a few days late because we wanted to include two new papers that were recently accepted for publication – one on geoengineering and one on nuclear war. Each paper demonstrates a key theme that …

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December 2012 Newsletter

Post Date December 10, 2012
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Recently, GCRI released its monthly email newsletter. The main updates are reprinted in the blog below.  To sign up for our newsletter, click here.

GCRI Releases Organization Directory Resource

As part of GCRI’s efforts to map the talent available for global catastrophic risk, we have compiled a directory of GCR organizations. The directory lists 117 organizations, with descriptive annotations for each. Further details are available here. This is one of several resources GCRI is developing in support of the global catastrophic risk community, as is the blogs & newsfeeds resource we released last …

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November 2012 Newsletter

Post Date November 02, 2012
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Yesterday GCRI sent out its monthly email newsletter. The main updates are reprinted below, slightly modified for the blog. To sign up for our newsletter, click here.

GCRI Releases Blogs & Newsfeeds Resource

To help the global catastrophic risk community stay up to date, GCRI has released a new blogs & newsfeeds resource, compiling 36 blogs and 18 newsfeeds related to catastrophic risk. Further details are available here. We expect to be releasing more resources in support of the global catastrophic risk community soon.

Katherine Thompson To Present …

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October 2012 Newsletter

Post Date October 05, 2012
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GCRI just sent out the first run of its monthly email newsletter. The main updates are reprinted below. To sign up for our newsletter, click here.

GCRI Launches New Website

Our website, gcrinstitute.org, has been completely redesigned. The site was designed in WordPress by Melissa Thomas. The new look features most of the previous site’s content, plus a new blog. We’ll be blogging regularly about GCRI and the broader theme of global catastrophic risk. Keep tuned in, and feel free to leave us a comment!

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