ESF EuroCLIMATE Workshop
Richard Feely
Dr. Richard Feely
Lecture: Global warming and ocean acidification: Double trouble for marine ecosystems
Where: Auditorium of the New Science Museum 'Cosmo Caixa', Barcelona
When: 26 September at 15:45
Who is Richard Feely?
Dr. Feely received his PhD Chemical Oceanography in 1974 from Texas A&M University. Since then, his research interestes have included Chemical Oceanography and aquatic chemistry; specifically mechanisms controlling sources and sinks of anthropogenic CO2 in the oceans, and impacts of hydrothermal processes on the chemistry of the oceans.
Victoria Fabry
Dr. Victoria Fabry
Lecture: Ocean acidification: A global geochemical experiment with unknown ecological consequences
Where: Auditorium of the New Science Museum 'Cosmo Caixa', Barcelona
When: 16:30
Who is Victoria Farby?
Dr. Fabry is a biological oceanographer whose research interests encompass the role of marine organisms in geochemical cycles, plankton ecology, and particularly the interactions of organisms that calcify and the oceanic CO2/carbonate system. The oceanic uptake of atmospheric CO2 resulting from human activities is expected to lower the surface ocean pH and change seawater chemistry. The response of calcifying organisms to elevated CO2 and the dissolution of biogenic calcium carbonate in the upper ocean are two areas of current work in Dr. Fabry’s research group..
James Zachos
Professor James Zachos
Lecture: Long-term consequences of ocean acidification: A Paleoperspective
Where: Auditorium of the New Science Museum 'Cosmo Caixa', Barcelona
When: 17:30
Who is James Zachos?
Dr Jim Zachos received his PhD at the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanogrpahy in 1988. Since 1993 he is a doctor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Santa Cruz, US. His research interests encompass a wide variety of problems related to the biological, chemical, and climatic evolution of late Cretaceous and Cenozoic oceans. He is a paleoceanographer who measures the chemical compositions of fossils to reconstruct past changes in marine temperatures, ocean circulation, continental ice-volume, marine productivity, and carbon cycling. His research is oriented toward identifying the mechanisms responsible for driving long and short-term changes in global climate.
Carol Turley
Dr. Carol Turley
Lecture: Taking the science of ocean acidification to policy makers, stakeholders and society
Where: Auditorium of the New Science Museum 'Cosmo Caixa', Barcelona
When: 18:15
Who is Carol Turley?
Dr Turley is a microbial ecologist and biogeochemist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Her own research has been centred around the role of microbes in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles looking at habitats from deep-sea sediments, estuaries, frontal systems to large enclosed waters such as the Mediterranean to the open and often very stormy waters of the North Atlantic. She was a member of the Royal Society working group on ocean acidification which published the report in June 2005 and an author of another report by OSPAR in 2006. She has given advice on this topic to policy makers and other stakeholders and was Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report, WGII, for Chapter 4 – Ecosystems, Their Properties, Goods and Services.