Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
January 8, 2010

ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing that provided a scientific perspective on options for adapting to climate change in the United States.

Featured speakers:

  • Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, the Climate Institute
  • Kristie L. Ebi, Executive Director, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 Technical Support Unit - Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
  • Katherine L. Jacobs, Professor, University of Arizona Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department
  • Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting

Water Resources in the West: Assessing Tradeoffs in a Changing Climate

Water Resources in the West: Assessing Tradeoffs in a Changing Climate
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ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing on status and future of freshwater resources in the American West, and the role of ecological science in efforts to prevent and adapt to water shortages.

Featured speakers:

  • Jill Baron, Ecosystem Ecologist, US Geological Survey, Colorado State University
  • Darrel Jenerette, Assistant Professor of Functional Landscape Ecology, University of California, Riverside
  • Diane Pataki, Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine

Climate Change: Intersections of Climate and Policy

Climate Change: Intersections of Climate and Policy
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ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing to address the scientific and public policy-related aspects of climate change.

Featured speakers:

  • Timothy Wirth, former US Representative and Senator and lead US negotiator at the Kyoto Climate Conference
  • Susan Solomon, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who co-chaired Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment & Security
  • Ted Parson, Professor of Law and of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan

From Agricultural to Urban Ecosystems: Nature’s Services to Humankind

From Agricultural to Urban Ecosystems: Nature's Services to Humankind
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ESA co-sponsored a webinar on ecosystem services featuring presentations from both ecologists and economists:
Featured speakers:

  • Jim Gosz, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Idaho’s College of Natural Resources
  • Rich Pouyat, former Vice President of ESA Public Affairs and research forester with the US Forest Service
  • Scott Swinton, Professor of Agricultural, Food & Resource Economics at Michigan State University
  • Steven Kraft, Chair of the Department of Agribusiness Economics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

After the Fire: Approaches to Revitalizing Ecosystem Resources

After the Fire: Approaches to Revitalizing Ecosystem Resources
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ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing on land management following forest fires.

Featured speakers:

  • Norm Christensen, former ESA President (2007-2008) and a forest ecologist at Duke University
  • Dan Neary, a soil scientist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Rocky Mountain Research Station
  • Stephen Swallow, a resource economist with the University of Rhode Island

The Sustainability of Cellulosic Biofuels

The Sustainability of Cellulosic Biofuels June 11, 2008

ESA hosted a congressional briefing on the ecological and economic impacts of producing biofuels from cellulosic sources—the leaves, stems, and other fibrous parts of plants.
Featured speakers:

  • Phil Robertson, who specializes in crop and soil science at the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University
  • Doug Landis, an entomologist from Michigan State University
  • Madhu Khanna, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois