Publications and Events

2010

Climate Change and Agriculture: Food and Farming in a Changing Climate
328A Senate Russell & 2318 Rayburn House • June 16, 2010

• Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Dr. Cesar Izaurralde, Laboratory Fellow; Joint Global Change Research Institute
• Dr. Paul Gepts, Professor of Agronomy and Geneticist; U.C. Davis
• Dr. Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate Change & National Security (video)
2212 Rayburn • June 4, 2010

• Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the United States Navy (video) (slides)
• Dr. Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (video) (slides)
• Moderator: Paul Higgins, Associate Director, American Meteorological Society Policy Program

Climate Science: Key Questions and Answers (Video)
210/212 SVC • May 11, 2010

• Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University (slides)
• Warren Washington Head of the Climate Change Research Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (slides)
• Richard Smith, Mark L. Reed III Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (slides)

Science, Preparation, and Resilience: What we can learn from the Haitian Earthquake of 2010
200 SVC and 2325 Rayburn • May 6, 2010

• Eric Calais, Professor of Geophysics, Purdue University
• Reginald Desroches, Professor and Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
• Brian Tucker, President and Founder, GeoHazards International

Tiny Particles with Big Consequences: Black Carbon, Climate, and Air Quality
106 Dirksen • April 29, 2010

Opening Remarks
• Senator Jeff Bingaman (video)
Moderator
• Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist / Director for Science & Impacts, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (video)
Panelists
• Tami Bond, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (video)
• Allen Schaefer, Executive Director, Diesel Technology Forum (video)
• John Bachmann, Principal, Vision Air Consulting, LLC (video)

Overview on Research and Development in the Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request
Cannon Caucus Room • March 16, 2010
• Rep. Judy Biggert, Research and Development Caucus Co-chair
• Rep. Rush Holt, Research and Development Caucus Co-chair
• Patrick Clemins Director, R&D Budget & Policy Program, AAAS

Climate Policy: Public Perception, Science, and the Political Landscape
902 Hart • March 12, 2010
• Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Michael Oppenheimer, Ph.D. Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Department of Geosciences and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Jon A. Krosnick, Ph.D. Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Communication, Stanford University

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Cannon Caucus Room (345) • January 8, 2010
• 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
• Katharine L. Jacobs, Professor, University of Arizona Soil, Water and Environmental Science Department
• Susanne Moser, Director and Principal Researcher, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting