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Chris Field
Director, Department of Global Ecology
Co-chair IPCC Working Group II, Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Carnegie Institution of Washington, San Francisco
Chris
Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department
of Global Ecology, Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System
Science at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. The author of more than 200
scientific publications, Field’s research emphasises impacts of climate
change, from the molecular to the global scale. His work includes major
field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor
global change, integrative studies on the global carbon cycle, and
assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture. Field’s work
with models includes studies on the global distribution of carbon
sources and sinks, and studies on environmental consequences of
expanding biomass energy. Field has served on many national and
international committees related to global ecology and climate change.
He was a coordinating lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In September, 2008, he
was elected Co-chair of Working Group II of the IPCC, and will lead the
next assessment on climate change impacts, adaptation, and
vulnerability. Field has testified before House and Senate committees
and has appeared on media from NPR “Science Friday” to BBC “Your World
Today”. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Field
received his PhD from Stanford in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie
Institution for Science since 1984.
Dr
Field will provide an overview of climate change impacts and adaptation
issues from an international perspective.
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Roger Jones
Professorial Research Fellow
Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne
Roger
Jones is Professorial Fellow with the Centre for Strategic Economic
Studies at Victoria University. He is interested in integrating across
disciplines in order to develop risk management methods for climate
change. Until recently, he was Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO
Marine and Atmospheric Research, where he developed risk methods over a
13-year period. Over the past decade, he has pioneered the
application of risk methods to impact and adaptation assessment.
Methods developed by Dr Jones have been used widely in Australia and
internationally and have contributed to the Australian Climate Change
Adaptation
Strategy, the United Nations Development Program Adaptation Policy
Frameworks, and are being used by researchers in a number of countries.
He was a convening Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report Chapter on
New Methods and Characterisation of the Future released in 2007.
Dr
Jones will speak about risk management approaches to adaptation. |
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