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2020 | Byrd Center Symposium on Climate Change

2020 | Byrd Center Symposium on Climate Change

Symposium on Climate Change Research 

Friday, October 9, 2020
8:50am - 3:50pm
Online via Zoom

Goal and Structure


Developed with input from last year’s participants, the intent of this year’s symposium is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration on climate change research at OSU.

Discussion and planning are facilitated through the use of Breakout Groups in two sessions. Each session will start with short preview talks on each of the proposed discussion topics, followed by 1 hour of group discussions, run concurrently, with a designated leader and rapporteur. Each session will end with a plenary discussion of next steps.

Symposium Schedule: Friday, October 9, 2020, 8:50am - 3:50pm

TimeSessionFacilitator:
8:50Welcome and Keynote Introduction: Ian Howat 
9:00Keynote Speaker: Dr. Aparna Bole
Climate and Public Health
9:35Break One
9:45Breakout Session One:
Agriculture and Food SecurityBrian Snyder
Building Environment, Urban Systems, Transportation, and CitiesElena Irwin
Climate and Public HealthDavid Kline
Climate Justice and EquityJoel Wainwright
11:15Break Two

11:30


  • 11:30
  • 11:55
  • 12:20
  • 12:45

Poster Session/Lunch


  • Group 1: Agrawal, Gabrielli, Lomax-Vogt, Zhang
  • Group 2: Arens, Gardner, Leasor, Wang
  • Group 3: Darrah, Ivezic, Mark, Zhan
  • Group 4: Ihle, Li, Taber, Zhao, Chartrand
 
1:15Break Three
1:30Keynote Introduction, Ian Howat 
1:35Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marta Jarzyna
Climate and Biodiversity
2:10Break Four
2:20Breakout Session Two:
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem ServicesMarta Jarzyna
Climate Change: Variability and ExtremesPeter Craigmile
Surface Water Resources and AccessibilityMike Durand
Engaging with the Public and Policy MakersRobyn Wilson
3:50Adjourn. Thank you for participating!
  

Falling dominoes? Ice, climate, sea level and our future


ABSTRACT: Sea level is rising because of human-caused warming, impacting coastal communities. Shrinkage of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland is contributing, and could accelerate in the future. History and physics show that warming melts ice, and that too much warming triggers rapid iceberg calving. Visitors to Glacier Bay in Alaska now sail more than 60 miles into a fjord that held ice up to a mile thick when George Vancouver visited in 1794, and many other fjords have rapidly “unzipped” into their mountains or ice sheet. If a similar retreat is triggered in any of the major Antarctic basins holding far more ice, more than 10 feet of additional sea-level rise could occur in the following century or less. Exciting scientific advances will be needed to reduce the remaining large uncertainties.

Keynote Schedule: Thursday, October 8, 2020, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

7:00
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Alley,Falling dominoes? Ice, climate, sea level and our future
8:00
Question and Answer
8:30
Closing Remarks: Ian Howat

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