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Reminder: Today's Workshop: Understand and Protect the Planet - Help Guide UC San Diego Research

We are thrilled to see the turnout in registrations for all four of the Research Initiative Workshops, and pleased to share the program for TODAY's workshop:

UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING THE PLANET
Tuesday, February 4th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm
Price Center East Ballroom

AGENDA:

Moderator: Keith Pezzoli - Resilient systems for climate change
2:35 - 2:45 pm: Ralph Keeling "Quantifying sources of greenhouse gases
and other pollutants"
2:45 - 2:55 pm: Tom Levy "Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental
Change -eScience for Field Research on Land and Sea at UC San Diego"
2:55 - 3:05 pm: Elsa Cleland "Scaling up from local experiments to
understand species and ecosystem responses to climate change in
Southern California"
3:05 - 3:15 pm: Lisa Levin "Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (Half the
Planet up for Grabs)"
3:15 - 3:30 pm Group Discussion and Q/A

Moderator: Terry Gaasterland - Sensing the Environment
3:30 - 3:40 pm: Kim Prather "Aerosol impacts on climate and the
environment" (no link)
3:40 - 3:50 pm: V. Nandigam, Chaitan Baru "Scalable Services for
Geosciences Data: Extending the OpenTopography System"
3:50 - 4:00 pm: Wael Al-Delaimy "Air, water, soil and temperature: the
health risk factors of the 21st century"
4:00 - 4:10 pm: To Be Announced
4:10 - 4:25 pm: Group Discussion and Q/A

Moderator: Steve Mayfield - Engineering solutions/Affecting Social
Change
4:45 - 4:55 pm: Jonathon Shurin "Ecology of farming algae for bioenergy"
4:55 - 5:05 pm: Shirley Meng "Energy Storage - Achilles' Heel for
Sustainable and Secure Energy"
5:05 - 5:15 pm: Richard Carson "Valuing Environmental Amenities,
Incentivizing Conservation Behavior & Forecasting Economic Activity"
5:15 - 5:25 pm: Carl Melis "They Came From Space! Understanding and
preparing for extraterrestrial threats"
5:25 - 5:40 pm: Group Discussion/Q &A

Information on registering for those workshops that remain open and the Agendas for all four Workshops are posted at http://researchinitiatives.ucsd.edu/.

As stated in the original announcement:
A key outcome of the campus strategic planning effort is the identification of four broad themes that provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education to complement the outstanding individual efforts which will continue to be campus priorities. The themes provide opportunities to leverage the remarkable research on our campus to address several of society's most pressing challenges. We are hosting workshops to enable broad participation in the development of these areas and identify new collaborative opportunities.

We look forward to seeing you at today's Workshop, or at all four.

Sandra A. Brown Vice Chancellor for Research Kit Pogliano Chair UC San Diego Division, Academic Senate

The other three Workshops:
EXPLORING THE BASIS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY
Wednesday, February 5th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm
Medical Education Training (MET) Auditorium at School of Medicine

ENRICHING HUMAN LIFE AND HEALTH
Thursday, February 6th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm
Beyster Auditorium at Rady School of Management

UNDERSTANDING CULTURES AND ADDRESSING DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE,
ACCESS EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Tuesday, February 11th, 2:00 to 5:30 (note slightly different time)
Faculty Club Atkinson Pavilion