Glacier Melt, Early Snowmelt, and Sea Level Rise

Program Agenda and Videos

October 21, 2011

Welcome and Introduction (View Video)

9:00 a.m. Introduction by Joseph F.C. DiMento, Professor of Law and Planning, University of California, Irvine, Director, Newkirk Center for Science and Society

9:05 a.m.- Welcome by John Hemminger, Dean, Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

A Visual Portrait of Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate
9:15 a.m. - James Balog, Photographer/Author, Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) (View Video)

 

10:00 a.m.- Defining the Science of Glacier Melt

  • Eric Rignot, Professor, Dept. Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Principal Scientist-Radar Science & Engineering Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (View Video)
  • Isabella Velicogna, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine (View Video)
  • Konrad Steffen, Professor and Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder Laboratory (View Video)

12:00 p.m.-Lunch

Ice, Sea Level Rise

1:00 p.m.- Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change

Kurt M. Cuffey, Professor of Geography, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (View Video)

Early Snowmelt

2:00 p.m.

  • Michael Dettinger Researcher, U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (View Video)
  • Daniel Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, Researcher, U.S. Geological Survey (View Video)

Paradigms of Human Security Related to the Consequences of Glacier Melt, Early Snowmelt and Sea Level Rise

2:45 p.m.

  • Richard Matthew, Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, and Political Science, Director, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (View Video)
  • James S. Famiglietti, Professor of Earth System Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering Director, UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling (View Video)

3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

Reflections on Law, Governance, and Science in the Himalayans

3:30 p.m.

  • Erica Lyman, Professor-Lewis and Clark Law School, Clinical Professor of Law, International Environmental Law Project (IELP) (View Video)
  • Bodo Bookhagen, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara (View Video)

Case Study of the Consequences of Glacier Melt in Peru
4:30 p.m. (View Video)

  • Mark Carey, Professor -Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
  • César A. Portocarrero Rodríguez. Department of Glaciology & Water Resources at the National Water Authority of Peru

Panel Discussion of The Challenges of Understanding Scientific Certainty and Uncertainty in the Science of Glacier Melt, Early Snowmelt, and Sea Level Rise.

5:15 p.m.

  • Joseph F.C. DiMento, Moderator, Professor of Law and Planning & Director, Newkirk Center for Science and Society, University of California, Irvine (View Video)
  • T.J. Fudge, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington