Bowdoin is joining the international mathematics community in promoting Mathematics of Planet Earth in 2013. MPE 2013 launched in Canada earlier this month and will launch in the U.S. at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January.

Mary Lou Zeeman, Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics at Bowdoin and co-director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network, has been on the MPE 2013 team since its inception. She is helping organize several MPE 2013 events around the country, as well as working to bring the initiative to Bowdoin.