{"id":61670,"date":"2011-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/founder-of-climate-response-fund-to-discuss-engineering-climate-at-uri-feb-15\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"founder-of-climate-response-fund-to-discuss-engineering-climate-at-uri-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/founder-of-climate-response-fund-to-discuss-engineering-climate-at-uri-feb-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Climate Response Fund to discuss \u2018engineering climate\u2019 at 溏心vlog免费B站, Feb. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 7, 2011 — Margaret Leinen, founder of the Climate Response Fund and executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, will present a lecture entitled \u201cShould We Engineer the Climate?\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tHer presentation, in Edward\u2019s Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus, is part of the University\u2019s Vetlesen lecture series on \u201cThe State of the Oceans\u201d in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Graduate School of Oceanography. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn her lecture, Leinen will argue that the impact of climate change will be so severe that we should conduct research into climate engineering. She will describe geoengineering, its prospects, its dangers and how it should be controlled.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe scientific community has begun to discuss the possibility of engineering the climate to avoid dangerous impacts of climate change,\u201d said Leinen. \u201cWould this

\nradical strategy work? What would be the environmental consequences of such engineering? Are there any mechanisms that could be used to govern climate engineering? What norms or ethical principles must be considered?\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFormerly dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography and associate provost for marine and environmental programs at 溏心vlog免费B站, Leinen founded the Climate Response Fund to foster discussion of climate engineering research and to decrease the risk that these techniques might be deployed before they are adequately understood or regulated.<\/p>\n


\n\tPreviously, Leinen was chief science officer of Climos, Inc. and assistant director for geosciences at the National Science Foundation. In this latter post, she was responsible for leadership of the International Group of Agencies for Global Change Research and defending the advocating for major research into climate change.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe earned a Ph.D. in oceanography from 溏心vlog免费B站, a master\u2019s degree in geological oceanography from Oregon State University, a bachelor\u2019s degree in geology from the University of Illinois.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The lecture series is sponsored by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, with individual lectures supported by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts & Sciences, the Harrington School of Communication, and Rhode Island Sea Grant. The series is coordinated by Professors Steven D\u2019Hondt, Arthur Spivack and Judith Swift, and Sunshine Menezes, director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting.<\/p>\n


\nAll events in the \u201cState of Our Oceans\u201d lecture series are on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Edwards Auditorium on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus. The programs are free and open to the public. The lectures also will be streamed on 溏心vlog免费B站 Live!<\/a><\/p>\n


\nMar. 1 \u2013 Ed Laws, chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Louisiana State University, on \u201cOceans and Human Health: The Urgent Need for Sustainable Resource Management.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMar. 8 \u2013 Christopher Reddy, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, on \u201cCommunicating Science: Lessons Learned from an Environmental Crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMarch 29 \u2013 Robert Ballard, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography, on \u201cThe Last Great Frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 5 \u2013 Norbert Wu, independent filmmaker and photographer of the marine environment, on \u201cExploring the World\u2019s Notable and Threatened Underwater habitats.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 12 \u2013 Deborah Kelley, professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Washington, on \u201cMeasuring Change Across the Global Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApr. 26 \u2013 Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. senator, on \u201cSteering a Course Toward a National Ocean Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the lecture series, visit www.uri.edu\/vetlesen<\/a> or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 7, 2011 — Margaret Leinen, founder of the Climate Response Fund and executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University, will present a lecture entitled \u201cShould We Engineer the Climate?\u201d at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Her presentation, in Edward\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}