[E&E seminars] Radcliffe Climate Lecture by Inez Fung on October 29

[Beth Conlin]

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2007-2008 Lectures in the Sciences 

THE CHANGING CARBON CYCLE: 
HOW FAST WILL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 INCREASE?

INEZ FUNG 

Professor of Atmospheric Sciences
Codirector, Berkeley Institute of the Environment 
University of California at Berkeley

Monday, October 29, 2007
4:15 p.m.
Lecture Hall A, Science Center
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

How fast the climate warms depends on the rate of CO2 increase in the
atmosphere. Currently, only half of the CO2 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. 

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 CO2 , dust, and other trace substances around the world. Fung's
recent work in climate modeling predicts the coevolution of CO2 and climate
and concludes that the diminishing capacities of the land and oceans to
store carbon act to accelerate global warming.

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.

This lecture is designed for the interested layperson and is free and open
to the public. 

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or call 617-495-8600.

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