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Climate Change Science and Policy Panel Discussion

Friday, November 20, 2015 at 11:15am

Bailey Hall
230 Garden Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850

The Cornell community is invited to join students in the "Intro to Oceanography" class, for an in-depth discussion of climate change. This event is sponsored by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and will be introduced by Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff. 

Panelists:
 
Toby Ault is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Toby's research has coalesced around three areas of study related to emergent climate risks: (1) estimating the risk of prolonged drought under climate change; (2) understanding the dynamical effects of climate change on seasonality; and (3) characterizing variations in the Tropical Pacific on timescales of decades to centuries, and their influence on global climate. The nature of Toby's work is highly interdisciplinary, affording him the opportunity to collaborate closely not only with other climate scientists but also with colleagues in many other disciplines, including geography, paleoclimatology, and ecology.
 
Drew Harvell is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Drew studies the ecology and evolution of diseases affecting corals and other marine organisms. A recent focus of her research has been to evaluate the impacts of a warming climate on marine diseases. Drew has been a Sabbatical Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Vice President of the Society of American Naturalists, and Associate Director for Environment in Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She has chaired both the World Bank Targeted Research Program on Coral Disease and the NCEAS Program on the Ecology of Marine Disease. Drew is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and a recipient of the Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Award of the Society of American Naturalists.
 
Robert Howarth is the David R Atkinson Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Bob is an Earth systems scientist, ecosystem biologist, and biogeochemist. He has worked extensively on environmental issues related to human-induced changes in the sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycles; the impacts of global climate change; and the interaction of energy systems and the environment. Bob chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication, coordinated the nutrient responses chapter for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, chaired the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, and served as President of the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation. In 2011, Time Magazine named Bob as one of 50 "People who Matter" for his research on the greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas.
 
Dan Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley and an alumnus of Cornell University (Physics, 1984). Dan is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. He has served the State of California and US federal government in numerous expert and advisory capacities, including being appointed as the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in April 2010. Dan has served as a contributing or lead author on reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999, sharing in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He also serves on the Advisory Committee for Energy and Environment for the X-Prize Foundation.

Kammen encourages Cornell students to visit the UC Cool Climate Challenge website, calculate their individual carbon footprints, and pledge to lower them.

      Kammen will also lead a seminar at 3:00 that afternoon
(The Energy Science and Policy of the 2-degree Climate Target).

 
Panel Moderator:
 
Chuck Greene is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. For most of his career, Chuck's research has coalesced around two areas of study: the ecological dynamics of marine animal populations and the effects of climate on marine ecosystems.  More recently, his research interests have expanded into the areas of conservation oceanography and the development of sustainable Earth, energy, and environmental systems. Chuck has been the recipient of three Sustainable Tompkins Awards and is a Fellow of the Oceanography Society.

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Christopher Dunn

Christopher Dunn 10/15/2015

This seems like a very interesting and timely. However, the topics are, in my view, fairly conventional aspects of climate change research and impacts. When will more people in the field consider seriously the impacts of climate change on human societies, particularly smaller indigenous communities whose lives, livelihoods, and cultural integrity are being decimated by this crisis? Not only are we losing biological diversity (terrestrial and marine), but are at risk of losing human/cultural/language diversity as a result. We need to place more emphasis on the "biocultural" impacts of climate change.