Environmental and Climate Change Seminar

["Porter, Kimberly" <kimberly.porter@usask.ca>]

PREAMBLE:    There is a considerable community of professors and
researchers at the University of Saskatchewan who focus their attention
upon the effects of changes in the environment, including the biosphere
and atmosphere of planet Earth.  This research is carried out within the
Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, and several departments in the
Arts and Sciences.  However, much of the existing research focuses upon
change and some of its effects, with less emphasis upon the fundamental
causes of change.  The latter includes solar, anthropogenic and
"natural" terrestrial forcings.



                              The immediate goal of the new colloquium
series (to be held 4 times a year) will be to foster multidisciplinary
discussions/exchanges across campus on the topic of climate change and
its impact on the environment.  There is belief/hope that this series
will help start a new type of research community in this area on campus.




      TOPIC OF SECOND COLLOQUIUM:



Some Implications of climate change



INTRODUCTION BY:     Dr. Jean-Pierre St.-Maurice, CRC Chair, ISAS



SPEAKERS:

Dr. Murray Fulton, Agricultural Economics and Center for the study of
cooperatives

                        Dr. Luis Buatois,  Geological Sciences



DATE:              Thursday, November 24, 2005



TIME:               3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

PLACE:               Theatre 103, Physics Building



THEMES FOR THE COLLOQUIUM:

Dr. St-Maurice, convener of the program, will introduce the topics for
the day.  Dr. Fulton will deal with some of the effect on society by
discussing how Canadian agriculture will face the challenge to reduce
greenhouse gases.  Dr. Buatois will take us back to "deep time" as he
discusses environmental and climatic perturbations from the perspective
of a geologist.



Future colloquia in the series are planned for mid-January and
mid-March.  The themes for these meetings will loosely be related to
greenhouse gases and what can be done about them (next meeting) plus
will address important issues related to the environment, like the ozone
hole and the consequence of environment changes on the flaura and fauna.


(November 15, 2005)





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