Engineers for a
Sustainable World: Multi-Disciplinary Rotating Academic Colloquium Series (MUDRAC)
Title: "Climate Change - Causes and
Consequences"
Topic: Global Warming
Date: Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Time: 3-5pm
Location: GEO 2.216
Summary:
Climate change impacts all aspects of society, yet significant uncertainties
remain regarding the impacts of such phenomena as global warming. These
impacts include sea level rise, changes in recharge to aquifers, extinction
and migration of species, and the triggering of more rapid climatic
'events'. Temperatures plummeting six degrees Celsius and sudden droughts
scorching farmland around the globe are not just the stuff of scary movies.
Such striking climate jumps have happened before - sometimes within a matter
of years.
Speakers:
Camille Parmesan (Integrative Biology):
For the past several years, the focus of her work has been on current
impacts of climate change in the 20th century on wildlife. The
intensification of global warming as an international issue led her into the
interface of policy and science.
Charles Jackson (Institute for Geophysics):
He is currently studying Tropical Pacific corals to understand how the
Tropics may participate in global climate change events during the Holocene
(10 ka to present).
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