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SUMMARY:Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments\, Knowledge Action  Net
 works\, and the Cambridge/UCSD Global Water Initiative - Prof Charlie Kenn
 el\, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California\, Sa
 n Diego
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CONTACT:Rachel Fogg
DESCRIPTION:Following the Copenhagen Conference\, there is greater \naware
 ness of the impending need to adapt to what will clearly be unavoidable cl
 imate change while continuing the essential effort to mitigate it at its s
 ource by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Adaptation and mitigation pla
 ce dramatically different requirements on the forecasting and assessment p
 rocesses.  Assessments for mitigation are designed to support the relative
 ly small number of central decision-makers concerned with global financial
  and energy policies and regulations\, while many decisions about adaptati
 on will be taken at the local and regional levels.  How can the scientific
 \, technological\, and \npolicy tools developed thus far for global mitiga
 tion be adapted to the needs of millions of decision-makers in hundreds of
  regions?   \n\nThis talk argues that a new information intensive social t
 echnology\, which we call Knowledge Action Networks\, may be a way to link
  the international \nscience\, technology\, and policy communities with re
 gional knowledge leaders and local decision makers.  We will illustrate wi
 th examples drawn from the Cambridge/UCSD Global Water Initiative.\n\n\n\n
 Bio:\nCharles F. Kennel\, Director\, Dean\, Vice-Chancellor\, and Distingu
 ished Professor Emeritus\, Scripps Institution of Oceanography\nMember\, S
 ustainability Solutions Institute\, University of California\, San Diego\n
 \nCharles F. Kennel was born in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and educated i
 n astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard and Princeton. He joined the UCLA 
 Department of Physics\, where he taught space plasma physics and astrophys
 ics\, and eventually chaired the department. He was the UCLA Executive Vic
 e Chancellor\, its chief academic officer\, from 1996-1998. \n\nFrom 1994 
 to 1996\, Kennel was Associate Administrator at NASA for Mission to Planet
  Earth. His experiences at NASA convinced him to remain in earth and envir
 onmental science. He became the ninth Director of Scripps Institution of O
 ceanography and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of Ca
 lifornia\, San Diego\, serving from 1997 to 2006. He was also the founding
  director of the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative\, embracin
 g teaching\, research\, campus operations\, and public outreach\, and is a
  member of the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute.\n\n
LOCATION:LR6\, Engineering\, Department of
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