Greenland Ice Sheet and dynamic response to global warming

Title: Greenland Ice Sheet and dynamic response to global warming
Location: Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005; Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
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Description: The Center for the Study of Environment and Society (CSES) at Rice University, and the Consulate of Switzerland, invite you to a public seminar; Reception to follow.

Dr. Konrad Steffen, (http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/steffen/) well-known Swiss scientist, is the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For over three decades, he has led field expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet, Antarctica, and other Arctic regions to measure the dynamic response of ice masses under a warming climate.

His work is responsible for a large part of the instrumentation that monitors changing conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet. He has published over 80 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his research has been featured on television, radio, and in many popular magazines.
Start Time: 19:30 pm
Date: 2010-04-09