June 28, 2010: 'Adapting to climate change in cities: A New York perspective' Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA-GISS

Posted June 28th, 2010 by Kathryn
The NCCARF Seminar Series and Gold Coast City Council present:
 
‘Adapting to climate change in cities: A New York perspective'
Dr Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University

 Cynthia Rosenzweig is a senior research scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She has led large-scale interdisciplinary regional, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change. She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the US Global Change Research Program. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report Observed Changes chapter, and served on the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenarios for Impact and Climate Assessment.

 
Followed by:
 ‘Adapting to climate change in cities: A local perspective'
Professor Paul Burton, Deputy Director (Gold Coast) Urban Research Program and Chair of Urban Management and Planning, Griffith University