Prof. Loris Magnani
Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Georgia

``The Georgia/Harvard High-Latitude CO Survey''

Observations of high latitude molecular clouds
provide information about nearby, often low 
density diffuse clouds that are located relatively
close to the Sun (within a few hundred parsecs).
Many of these clouds are too low density to initiate
star formation, but their column densities are similar
to those observed in cosmologically interesting Lyman
alpha clouds. They show turbulent substructures that
are often unaffected by internal processes such as 
newly formed stellar outflows but there are several
that also show evidence of star forming activity.