Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change

Posted by on April 27, 2009

Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change

WHAT: Faculty from the University of Pennsylvania are holding a one-day symposium to inform the Penn community, the media and the public about the challenges and opportunities of climate science. The symposium will showcase the diversity of climate-related research at Penn and will also include presentations by three internationally known climate scientists.

Additional information: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/climate_sym.html

WHO:
* Brent Helliker (http://www.bio.upenn.edu/faculty/helliker/), Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Ecology and Evolution, Penn
* Ron Stouffer (http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/ronald-j-stouffer-home-page), Future Climate Change: What Can We Expect, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch/) 2007 Summary for Policymakers
* Tony Broccoli (http://www.envsci.rutgers.edu/%7Ebroccoli/), Regional Perspectives on Past and Future Climate Change, Rutgers University, reviewer and participant in IPCC 2007 Assessment
* Eric Orts (http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/ortse.html), Climate Contracts: Future Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Penn
* Robert Schaffer, lead author of the IPCC 2007 Report on Mitigation, Impacts of Climate Change on Energy Security, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

WHEN: Friday, May 1, 2009; 8 a.m. to 3:30 pm

WHERE:
Room 102, Department of Chemistry (http://www.chem.upenn.edu/chem/)
University of Pennsylvania
231 S. 34th St.