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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<br>
2007-2008 Lectures in the Sciences</span></font> <br>
<b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><br>
THE CHANGING CARBON CYCLE: </span></font></b><br>
<b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>HOW FAST
WILL ATMOSPHERIC CO<sub>2</sub> INCREASE?<br>
<br>
INEZ FUNG</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><br>
<font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Professor of Atmospheric Sciences<br>
Codirector, Berkeley Institute of the Environment <br>
University of California at Berkeley</span></font><br>
<br>
<b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Monday, October 29, 2007<br>
4:15 p.m.<br>
Lecture Hall A, Science Center<br>
1 Oxford Street<br>
Cambridge, Massachusetts<br>
</span></font></b><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>How
fast the climate warms depends on the rate of CO<sub>2</sub> increase in the
atmosphere. Currently, only half of the CO<sub>2</sub> emitted by fossil fuel
combustion has remained in the atmosphere; the land and oceans have absorbed
the rest. With global warming, Inez Fung anticipates that the land and oceans
will reduce their capacities to store carbon, thus accelerating the problem. <br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fung
has been studying climate change for twenty years. She is a principal architect
of large-scale mathematical modeling approaches and numerical models to
represent the geographic and temporal variations of sources and sinks of CO<sub>2</sub>
, dust, and other trace substances around the world. Fung's recent work in
climate modeling predicts the coevolution of CO<sub>2</sub> and climate and
concludes that the diminishing capacities of the land and oceans to store
carbon act to accelerate global warming.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fung
received her SB in Applied Mathematics and her ScD in Meteorology from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1998, she joined the University of California at Berkeley as the first Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished
Professor in the Physical Sciences and the founding director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center. She is a professor in the Department of Earth and
Planetary Science and in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and
Management. Since 2005, she has been a founding codirector of the Berkeley
Institute of the Environment.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This
lecture is designed for the interested layperson and is free and open to the
public. <br>
<br>
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.radcliffe.edu/">www.radcliffe.edu</a>
or call 617-495-8600.<br>
</span></font><br>
<font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'>The Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is a scholarly community
where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic
disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Within this broad purpose,
the Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender,
and society.<br>
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