| Date: | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
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| Time: | 9:30-11:30 am |
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On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ will host the fifth Trottier Symposium entitled 'Avoiding dangerous climate change: Geo-engineering or mitigation'. Accompanying this event, McGill's (Departments of Geography, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) will host a mini-symposium on Earth System Science with three of our invited speakers who have generously volunteered to stay an extra day and three of our own Earth System Science faculty.
In this symposium, targeted at an audience of students, faculty, and scientists in the Earth System Science Program, our speakers will address some current challenges in the field of Earth System Science. The talks will progress from considering aerosol impacts on climate, to studying global climate impacts, and end with a talk about public opinion on climate change. Each talk will last for 20 minutes, including 5 minutes for discussion.
| 9:30 | Alan Robock (Rutgers University, USA): "Volcanic Eruptions and Climate" |
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| 9:50 | Phil Rasch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA): "Challenges in Modeling Aerosol Forcing in Climate Models" |
| 10:10 | Bruno Tremblay (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, McGill): "Arctic Sea Ice and Climate Change" |
| 10:30 | Bernhard Lehner (Geography, McGill): "Global Environmental Change and Water Resources" |
| 10:50 | Boz Wing (Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill): "Tipping Points in the Earth System: Global Eutrophication and the end-Permian Mass Extinction" |
| 11:10 | James Fleming (Colby College, USA): "The Climate of Opinion near the Ground" |
| ²Ñ´Ç»å±ð°ù²¹³Ù´Ç°ù:ÌýÌý | Navin Ramankutty (Geography, McGill) |
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Following the mini-symposium, a light lunch will be served.