Oct 30, 2009
Climate change researcher to speak Nov. 2
Posted by: Carolyn Bobo
David E. Blockstein, left, senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, will discuss “Climate Change: Science and Solutions,” from 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 2 in Chemistry Building, Room 253. Blockstein’s free lecture is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the graduate program in environmental science.
The council is a nonpartisan organization of scientists, educators, environmentalists, business people, and policymakers working to improve the scientific basis of environmental decision making.
Blockstein joined the council, then the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, in 1990 and was its first executive director. He led an effort to develop a proposal for a National Institute for the Environment, which gained the support of more than 500 universities, scientific, business, government and environmental organizations and was subject to congressional legislation and hearings.
Blockstein organizes and chairs council's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the
Environment. This conference brings together more than 1,000 scientists, engineers and decision makers to discuss key environmental topics, including climate change, energy, biodiversity, environment and human health and forecasting. He chairs a diverse planning committee of scientists and decision makers, which results in a participatory conference including some 200 speakers and develops recommendations on key topics. The 9th National Conference in 2008 had a theme of Biodiversity in A Rapidly Changing World and included more than 1,000 participants.
Blockstein is the editor the forthcoming The Climate Solutions Consensus to be published by Island Press this year. The book summarizes the science on climate and climate solutions, and includes recommendations from the 2009 national conference.
Blockstein has a bachelor's degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin and a master of science and a doctorate in ecology from the University of Minnesota. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Posted by: Carolyn Bobo
David E. Blockstein, left, senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, will discuss “Climate Change: Science and Solutions,” from 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 2 in Chemistry Building, Room 253. Blockstein’s free lecture is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the graduate program in environmental science. The council is a nonpartisan organization of scientists, educators, environmentalists, business people, and policymakers working to improve the scientific basis of environmental decision making.
Blockstein joined the council, then the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, in 1990 and was its first executive director. He led an effort to develop a proposal for a National Institute for the Environment, which gained the support of more than 500 universities, scientific, business, government and environmental organizations and was subject to congressional legislation and hearings.
Blockstein organizes and chairs council's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the
Environment. This conference brings together more than 1,000 scientists, engineers and decision makers to discuss key environmental topics, including climate change, energy, biodiversity, environment and human health and forecasting. He chairs a diverse planning committee of scientists and decision makers, which results in a participatory conference including some 200 speakers and develops recommendations on key topics. The 9th National Conference in 2008 had a theme of Biodiversity in A Rapidly Changing World and included more than 1,000 participants.
Blockstein is the editor the forthcoming The Climate Solutions Consensus to be published by Island Press this year. The book summarizes the science on climate and climate solutions, and includes recommendations from the 2009 national conference.
Blockstein has a bachelor's degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin and a master of science and a doctorate in ecology from the University of Minnesota. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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