Professor Dan Stokols will discuss transdisciplinary, multi-scale theorizing and research aimed at better understanding and ameliorating some of the pressing societal and global challenges of the 21st Century. Dr. Stokols is a Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology in the Departments of Psychology and Social Behavior and Planning, Policy, and Design, and founding dean of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the study of people’s transactions with their social and physical environments—especially how they influence personal and public health - through this field he has served as an instrumental guide and contributor in establishing the Science of Team Science.