What’s Happening to the Greenland Ice Sheet? (October 2017)

2017, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Education, Freshwater, Glaciology, Greenland, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Lecture, Science TalkLeave a comment

The Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise, and if completely melted, could add ~7 meters to sea level. In recent years, the imbalance of the ice sheet has increased with warmer atmospheric conditions. In this talk, Visiting Assistant Professor Samiah Moustafa describes the field’s current knowledge on…

Miriam Jones: Permafrost thaw dynamics & implication

2017, Anthropocene, Arctic, Arctic Circle, CO2 Emissions, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geosphere, Greenhouse Gases, Holocene, Methane (CH4), Paleoclimatology, Pedology, Permafrost, Soil, SwampsLeave a comment

Miriam Jones speaks at the Permafrost Collaboration Team Meeting, October 10, 2017. https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/events/7798 Video via IARPC Collaborations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOyLef1t4IU Related Bølling-Allerød warming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B8lling-Aller%C3%B8d_warming

Jerry Brown: The Threat of Climate Change is Profound #COP23

2017, Climate Change, Communication, Emissions Reduction, Energy, PolicyLeave a comment

California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers a blunt climate change message in Germany http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-jerry-brown-climate-change-20171108-story.html Meeting of the Conference of Presidents open to all members with Jerry BROWN, Governor of California: extracts from the statements Audio via http://www.audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/Assetdetail.aspx?id=0c644194-f893-44fd-bd9d-a82501249365

The Era of Megafires

2017, Climate Change, Environment, Extreme Weather, WildfireLeave a comment

Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist, USDA-Forest Service talks at Restoring the West Conference 2017. Context: More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many terrestrial and aquatic habitats is fragmented, flows of some ecological and physical processes have been altered…

EPA: Climate Change Communication – Scale, Complexity, Urgency (October 2017)

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on the challenging issue of the communication of climate change on 26 October 2017. Video by EPA Ireland https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIrela… The speaker, Professor Chris Rapley CBE, is Professor of Climate Science at University College London and has specialised…

The Sciences of the Anthropocene explained

2017, Anthropocene, Biosphere, Environment, Geosphere, History, Lecture, Science TalkLeave a comment

In this opening lecture of the Environmental Change Institute’s MSc in Environmental Change and Management, Professor Yadvinder Malhi discusses the emerging concept of the Anthropocene. In his lecture he explores the history of the concept, how it is used in disciplines ranging from the Earth system sciences, geology, ecology, social sciences and in the wider…

Richard Alley: The Big Picture on Energy and Climate (2017)

2017, Climate Change, Communication, Energy, Lecture, Science, Science Talk, USALeave a comment

His presentation (3/22/2017), titled “The big picture on energy and climate,” discusses the dynamics of how money, jobs, national security, ethics and the environment influence perceptions and decisions about energy. The presentation was sponsored by several Lycoming College organizations including: Clean Water Institute, Center for Energy and the Future, Outdoor Leadership and Education program, and…