Thursday, May17, 2007 Lunda Room at the Alumni Memorial Union Marquette University 1442 West Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI

DIRECTIONS

6:00 PM - Social Hour
7:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Meeting and Program

Dinner – (Prices include tax and gratuity)
            •           Chicken Breast Hunters Style
            •           Vegetable Lasagna
            •           Marinated Vegetable Salad
            •           Ceasar Salad
            •           Starch and Vegetable
            •           Rolls and butter
            •           An assortment of Chef’s desserts
            •           Regular or decaffinated coffee, hot tea, water

Members/Guests – $22.00
Chemistry Students – $10.00

For dinner reservations, please call
Bruce Warren at Marquette University
 (414) 288-7065
or
e-mail: bruce.warren@mu.edu

subject="ACS Dinner Reservation"

All are welcome.
 Come and hear the speaker without attending the dinner.

ABSTRACT

If you were flown from Wisconsin and dropped on the summit of Everest without bottled oxygen, you would lose consciousness within a few minutes and eventually die. But after several weeks of acclimatization at lower altitudes, some individuals can climb to the summit of Everest without supplemental oxygen. What changes occur in the body that allow you to survive these low oxygen levels? Some changes occur within seconds, others take weeks to complete. Using real examples from climbs of the world’s highest peaks, we will examine why carbon dioxide balance is a major factor in acclimatization, what controls changes in hemoglobin-oxygen relationships that occur at high altitude, and the incompatible need to both excrete and retain water. At an organismal level, we will consider the factors which control exercise performance at altitude.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Mike Farris began his study of biology and his climbing career while a student at Miami University (Ohio). His research interests have ranged from population genetics, plant physiological ecology, evolutionary biology, and the interaction between human behavior and ecology. He is currently completing a book entitled The Altitude Experience: The Art and Science of Travel Up High. Over the past 20 years he has attempted high altitude peaks in Alaska, South America, Africa, Nepal, and Pakistan. He has climbed to 26,000 feet on Kangchenjunga and Broad Peak, and summited Gasherbrum II (26,360 ft) in 2006. Mike is Professor of Biology at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.