Event Details — Greenland Ice Sheet and Dynamic Response to Global Warming

The Center for the Study of Environment and Society (CSES) at Rice University and the Consulate of Switzerland are hosting this public seminar, “Greenland Ice Sheet and dynamic response to global warming,” on Friday, April 9th, 2010, at 7:30 pm, with reception to follow at McMurty Auditorium, Duncan Hall, Rice University.

For directions, visit www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html.

An event flier includes the following information:

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.