What: Can Geoengineering Save Us? What are the risks and potential benefits of purposefully shifting parts of our atmosphere, oceans, and lands to address our carbon-charged climate? A panel of experts share their thoughts on solar, carbon, and marine geoengineering.
Who:
Dr. Lisa Dilling is Associate Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund and was previously a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is an expert on societal solutions to climate change and the science-policy interface.
Dr. James W. Hurrell is the Scott Presidential Chair of Environmental Science and Engineering at Colorado State University. Previously, he served as the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Dr. Hurrell is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the U.K. Royal Meteorological Society, and the American Geophysical Union.
Dr. Peter Lawrence is a Project Scientist in the Terrestrial Sciences Section (TSS) in the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory at the NCAR. His research investigates how human and natural systems respond to the world's changing climate and how human activities in turn impact back on the climate system.
Dr. Matthew Long is co-founder and CEO of [C]Worthy, a non-profit research organization focused on building the tools needed to ensure safe, effective ocean-based carbon dioxide removal. Before establishing [C]Worthy, Dr. Long was a researcher in the Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory at (NCAR).
Dr. Karen H. Rosenlof is a senior scientist with the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory. She has considerable expertise in the interpretation of stratospheric water vapor and ozone data from in situ sources and satellite. In particular, her work has focused on understanding trends and variability of constituents (including aerosols) and transport in the stratosphere.
Dr. Simone Tilmes is a Project Scientist at NCAR. Her scientific interests cover the understanding of chemical, aerosol, and dynamical processes in chemistry-climate models. She also has studied the impacts of solar climate interventions and stratospheric aerosol intervention (SAI) strategies and scenarios on the Earth’s climate system.
Details:
This panel is free and open to the public. No registration required. Refreshments will be served. Link to event: https://www.colorado.edu/pwr/sustainability-geoengineering
When: Thursday, March 13th; 2pm - 4pm.
Where: University Memorial Center (UMC) Room 235; CU Boulder’s Campus, Boulder, CO.