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SUMMARY:Avoid the Unmanageable\, Manage the Unavoidable: Can we infer from
  today’s changes and climate models what tomorrow’s world might look l
 ike?  - Professor Charlie F Kennel
DTSTART:20140123T173000Z
DTEND:20140123T190000Z
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CONTACT:Jackie Ouchikh
DESCRIPTION:This term\, Professor Charlie F Kennel is a Visiting Research 
 Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) and he will d
 eliver a series of seminars on adaptation to climate change\, hosted by Ch
 rist's College.\n\nThis 6 week series is designed for a general audience a
 nd will take place on Thursdays between 5.30pm and 7pm.  Each week\, there
  will be a lecture followed by questions and a drinks reception.\n\n*Semin
 ar 2: Impacts of Climate Change*\n\nOn Thursday the 23rd January\, Profess
 or Kennel will focus on the impacts of climate change in the second in a s
 eries of CSaP public lectures\, covering areas such as regional weather pa
 tterns\, water availability\, floods\, drought\, wildfires\; impacts on ag
 riculture\, ecology\, human disease and regional technical systems.\n\nPla
 ces are limited so you can *register your attendance* at the second lectur
 e and find out more about the rest of the series by following this link:\n
 \n"CSaP adaptation to climate change seminar series":http://www.csap.cam.a
 c.uk/events/Adaptation-to-climate-change-seminar-series/\n\n*Biography:*\n
 Professor Kennel is the former Executive Vice Chancellor of UCLA \, its ch
 ief academic officer. In the 1990s he was Associate Administrator at NASA 
 and Director of Mission to Planet Earth\, the world’s largest Earth scie
 nce program. Kennel’s experiences at NASA convinced him of the growing i
 mportance of Earth and environmental science\, and he decided to devote th
 e rest of his career to these and related fields. He became the ninth Dire
 ctor of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor of Marine 
 Sciences at the University of California\, San Diego\, serving from 1998 t
 o 2006\, and was the founding director of the UCSD Environment and Sustain
 ability Initiative. He was the 2007 C.P. Snow lecturer at Christ's College
  and is now a Distinguished Visiting Fellow there. He chairs the board of 
 the California Council on Science and Technology and the Space Studies Boa
 rd of the US National Academy of Sciences.  His present interests include 
 global climate change\, environmental and marine biological science\, coas
 tal science and monitoring\, ocean science and policy\, management of inte
 rdisciplinary science.
LOCATION:Plumb Auditorium\, Christ's College
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