Agriculture will be one of the industries most affected by climate
change. Changing rainfall patterns and intensities, air temperatures,
and cropping seasons will require the development of new, adapted
agricultural systems. On June 16th, experts on climate modeling,
cropping systems, crop breeding, and agriculture and natural resource
economics will present information about how agriculture can adapt to a
changing climate.
Speakers
- 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)
Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
American Society of Agronomy, Council on Food, Agricultural, and
Resource Economics, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science
Society of America.
For questions or to RSVP please contact
Phillip Chalker at [email protected] or 202-326-6789.
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where
she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She has organized and led
large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international
studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is a co-chair of
the New York City Panel on Climate Change and co-led the Metropolitan
East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the
Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. She was a
Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working
Group II Fourth Assessment Report observed changes chapter, and served
on the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios
for Impact and Climate Assessment. A recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, she joins impact models with climate models to predict
future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered
climate conditions. She is a Professor at Barnard College and a Senior
Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.
Dr. Cesar Izaurralde is a laboratory fellow at the Joint Global
Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration of the University of
Maryland with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He is
also an adjunct professor in the departments of Geography and the
Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture. Dr. Izaurralde is
a soil scientist with more than 30 years of research experience in
agronomy, soil science, and ecosystem modeling. His current research
focuses in the areas of modeling the impacts of climate change and
variability on terrestrial ecosystems and water resources and carbon
sequestration in and greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils.
Before joining PNNL in 1997, Dr. Izaurralde
served as Chair of Resource Conservation in the Department of Renewable
Resources at the University of Alberta, Canada. In his native Argentina,
he studied at and later joined the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias at
Universidad Nacional de Cardoba. Dr. Izaurralde is Fulbright Fellow and
a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.
Dr. Paul Gepts is professor of agronomy in the Department of
Agronomy and Range Science at the University of California, Davis. His
research and teaching program focuses on the evolution of plants under
domestication and relies on a combination of genetic and genomic
analyses, coupled with field work in centers of crop domestication,
principally Latin America and Africa. Recent research conducted in
Mexico has emphasized gene flow between wild and domesticated Phaseolus
beans. He has taught courses on crop germplasm in Argentina and Italy,
is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and the American Society of Agronomy, has published some 70
research papers and 40 review papers or book chapters, and has edited
one book. Dr. Gepts was a member of an Ecological Society of America
(ESA) task force that wrote an ESA position
paper, Genetically Engineered Organisms and the Environment: Current
Status and Recommendations. He co-authored a background chapter
assessing the effects of transgenic maize on maize diversity in Mexico
for the NAFTA Commission on Environmental
Cooperation.
Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Nelson is a senior research fellow at the
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He is an
agricultural economist with over 30 years of professional and research
experience in the areas of agriculture, policy analysis, land use and
climate change. As co-leader of IFPRI’s global
change program, he is responsible for developing
IFPRI’s research in climate change modeling
and spatially explicit assessments of potential adaptation and
mitigation programs and policies. His previous professional activities
includes leading the drivers of ecosystem services efforts of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, undertaking research that combines
biophysical and socioeconomic data in quantitative, spatially-explicit
modeling of the determinants of land use change, and understanding the
effects of agricultural, trade and macroeconomic policies on agriculture
and land use. Before joining IFPRI, Dr. Nelson
was a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer
Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985-2008) and an
Agricultural Development Council specialist at the University of the
Philippines, Los Baños. He received his PhD from Stanford University in
1982.
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06/16/2010 at 10:30AM