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SUMMARY:Avoid the unmanageable\, manage the unavoidable: Sea level rise\, 
 coastal cities\, and wetlands - Professor Charlie F Kennel
DTSTART:20140213T173000Z
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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
  and will take place on Thursdays between 5.30pm and 7pm. Each week\, ther
 e will be a lecture followed by questions and a drinks reception.\n\n*Semi
 nar 4*\n\nIn the fourth seminar of the series\, Professor Kennel will disc
 uss factors affecting rates of global and local sea level rise\; how advan
 ced regions are preparing - Venice\, the Netherlands\, and Sacramento Bay-
 Delta\; and vulnerable cities\, agricultural river deltas\, and low-lying 
 island nations.\n\nPlaces are limited so you can *register your attendance
 * at this seminar and find out more about the rest of the series by follow
 ing this link:\n\n"CSaP adaptation to climate change seminar series":http:
 //www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/adaptation-climate-change-seminar-4/\n\n*Biogr
 aphy:* Professor Kennel is the former Executive Vice Chancellor of UCLA \,
  its chief academic officer. In the 1990s he was Associate Administrator a
 t NASA and Director of Mission to Planet Earth\, the world’s largest Ear
 th science program. Kennel’s experiences at NASA convinced him of the gr
 owing importance of Earth and environmental science\, and he decided to de
 vote the rest of his career to these and related fields. He became the nin
 th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor of 
 Marine Sciences at the University of California\, San Diego\, serving from
  1998 to 2006\, and was the founding director of the UCSD Environment and 
 Sustainability 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 St
 udies Board of the US National Academy of Sciences. His present interests 
 include global climate change\, environmental and marine biological scienc
 e\, coastal science and monitoring\, ocean science and policy\, management
  of interdisciplinary science.
LOCATION:Plumb Auditorium\, Christ's College
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