Social Energy Event
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When:
02/17/2010 at 12:00 pm
Where:
St,. Paul Minnesota, 55108
United States
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"High-tech Global Change Experiments in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Lot of Hot Air?"
Peter Reich, Professor, Forest Resources
Earth faces a complex set of challenges to its climate and ecological systems. Researchers have invented a diverse array of tools to help scientists and policy makers better understand what we are doing to our planet, and what the consequences might be. Among these tools are technologically advanced, multi-year outdoor experiments aimed at improving our understanding of ecosystem responses to climate warming, rising CO2 levels and other environmental changes. What are these experiments good for, if anything? And what can they not help us understand? Peter Reich will address these issues with examples from his own work in grasslands and forests in Minnesota, and the broader set of related studies from around the world.
Watch live via UMConnect: http://umconnect.umn.edu/IonEFrontiers
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The Institute on the Environment is breathing new life into the old lecture series. Frontiers in the Environment explores the frontiers of knowledge in climate change, renewable energy, land use, food security and many other environmental hot topics. Our speakers go easy on the PowerPoint slides and heavy on the big ideas. They provide the audience with a true understanding of the issue, its global significance and breakthroughs on the horizon. Join us Wednesdays for a presentation and Q&A session, followed by a casual get-together in the IonE Commons. The lectures also air live on the Web and are archived for future viewing.
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