Ornithology Group

title: "Frontiers in Climate Change Adaptation"

Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment - Fall Event Online

Thursday, September 24 at 4:00pm

Frontiers in Climate Change Adaptation
Chris Field, Stanford University

Event Live Stream:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=e30cab0d8b683468513e854f18c2a791c


The Teale Series at UConn has moved online this Fall, with the first virtual lecture to be held on September 24 at 4:00pm.

Please join us for ‘Frontiers in Climate Change Adaptation’, presented by Chris Field, the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University.

Chris Field’s groundbreaking work has been published in numerous scientific journals including PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences) and Global Change Biology. Investigating how computational methods can be used to develop integrative models that explicitly incorporate the social, physical, ecological, and evolutionary factors that drive ecosystem change, he has earned many notable recognitions, including election to the US National Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Research Award, and the Roger Revelle Medal.

His work includes major field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change, integrative studies on the global carbon cycle, and assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture. Field’s work with models includes studies on the global distribution of carbon sources and sinks, and studies on environmental consequences of expanding biomass energy.

Prior to his 2016 appointment at the Stanford Woods Institute, Dr. Field was a staff member at the Carnegie Institution for Science (1984-2002) and founding director of the Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology (2002-2016). Field's research focuses on climate change, ranging from work on improving climate models to prospects for renewable energy systems and community organizations that can minimize the risk of a tragedy of the commons. He has been deeply involved with national and international efforts to advance understanding of global ecology and climate change. Field was co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2008-2015), where he led the effort on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (2012), and Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (2014).

The program will be moderated by Kent Holsinger, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School at UConn. This WebEx event is open to the public and viewers may submit question via chat during the program.

If you are an individual needing an accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu.

Teale Lecture Series: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/