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FW: WMO Prize 2009 Dr. Eugenia Kalnay Seminar April 15th, noon, FIU Campus WC-130

From: "Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm" <miralles@fiu.edu>
Subject: FW: WMO Prize 2009 Dr. Eugenia Kalnay Seminar April 15th, noon, FIU Campus WC-130
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:47:39 -0400

Please note new time, 1230 instead of noon TODAY.

 

FMW

 

From: Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm [mailto:miralles@fiu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:12 PM
To: 'seminar@rsmas.miami.edu'
Subject: WMO Prize 2009 Dr. Eugenia Kalnay Seminar April 15th, noon, FIU Campus WC-130

 

 

 

 

POPULATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

 

Dr. Eugenia Kalnay

 

WMO Prize 2009

Distinguished Professor

Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences

University of Maryland

 

April 15, 2010

WC – 130

12:00 pm

 

Basic facts about population growth and its impact on climate change

will be described. A proposal will be made to develop regional climate

population/economics models coupled within the Earth System models

used to understand climate change in order to include important

feedbacks between population and climate change.

 

 

For Location in MMC, please visit http://www.fiu.edu/docs/campus_maps/MMC_map.pdf

The most convinient way is to come in by 8th Street, if going from EC

 

For more information on Dr. Kalnay, please visit http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/

 

Dr. Kalnay is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1996); foreign member of the Academia Europea (2000); Distinguished University Professor, UMD, 2001; Eugenia Brin Professor in Data Assimilation (2008); Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires, 2008, corresponding member of the Argentine National Academy of Physical Sciences (2003), Fellow of AGU (2005), AAAS (2006), UMD-wide Kirwan 2006 Award, former Robert E. Lowry Chair, School of Meteorology, U. of Oklahoma. Former Director of the Environmental Modeling Center at NCEP. Her recent work on the impact of land use on climate change (Kalnay and Cai, Nature, 2003), was chosen by Discovery Magazine as one of the top 100 science news of the year (see feature in International Association for Urban Climate newsletter). The Reanalysis paper of 1996 is the most cited paper in all geosciences. Education: License in Meteorology, University of Buenos Aires, 1965. Ph. D., 1971, MIT.

 

Refreshments will be provided.