Event Detail Information
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Science Solutions for a Planet in Peril |
| Start Date: | 1/24/2008 |
| End Date: | 1/24/2008 |
| Event Time: | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM |
| Title: | Science Solutions for a Planet in Peril |
| Location: | Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD |
| Event Category: | Aquarium -Aquarium Special Event |
| Sponsor: | Birch Aquarium at Scripps |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| General Fee: | $8.00 |
| Faculty/Staff Fee: | $5.00 |
| UCSD Student Fee: | $5.00 |
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| Contact Name: | Visitor Services Visitor Services |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-5771 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | aquariuminfo@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | How can we solve the environmental challenges facing Earth? Join distinguished professor Charles Kennel of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a special Jan. 24 presentation at Birch Aquarium at Scripps as he explores ways that scientists can use technology to create solutions that address climate change, biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, drought and flood cycles, and other environmental challenges.
In the last half century, advances in economic and social well-being came at the cost of vastly increased use of natural resources. Faced now with a highly threatened environment, natural and social scientists must work more closely together. Kennel will discuss how the ongoing convergence of earth science, biology and social science—enabled by information technology—could lead to a new awareness of Earth’s systems that will enable coordinated responses to the global environmental challenges that face us all now and in the future. Kennel is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Scripps Oceanography. He was the founding director of the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative (ESI), an all-campus effort that embraces teaching, research, campus operations and public outreach, and the chairman of ESI’s International Advisory Board. Kennel was the ninth director of Scripps Oceanography, serving from 1998 to 2006. RSVP at 858-534-5771 to reserve a spot. The lecture is intended for a lay audience. Birch Aquarium admission and parking are included. Light refreshments will be served. |
