{"id":66790,"date":"2008-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-fall-honors-colloquium-to-examine-global-environmental-change\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-fall-honors-colloquium-to-examine-global-environmental-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/08\/uri-fall-honors-colloquium-to-examine-global-environmental-change\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 fall Honors Colloquium to examine \u2018global environmental change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tLectures, films, exhibit, book clubs, cabaret run Sept. 9 to Dec. 9<\/p>\n

<\/a>\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 18, 2008 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2008 Honors Colloquium, \u201cPeople and Planet – Global Environmental Change,\u201d will explore human-caused global change, its consequences and potential responses through a series of lectures, films, exhibits and a cabaret.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe series of free, weekly events featuring international experts and 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty members will run from Sept. 9 to Dec. 9. Most events will take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Chafee Social Science Center, 10 Chafee Rd., on the Kingston campus.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cHumans have been affecting our environment on a global scale for millennia,\u201d said Steven D\u2019Hondt, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography who is coordinating the colloquium with professors Art Spivack and Judith Swift. \u201cThis year\u2019s Honors Colloquium is going to examine those changes and outline the kinds of choices people might make collectively to minimize their effects.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt won\u2019t be an indictment of how we got to where we are,\u201d added Swift. \u201cInstead, we will look to the future on these issues \u2013 what do we know, what do we need to know, what are we going to do to address it, and what are the consequences of those choices.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe foundation of the colloquium is a series of lectures examining the history, science, effects and solutions to global warming and other environmental changes. Included in the lineup of speakers are Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change; Charles Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus; Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board; and Robert Socolow, director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe information contained in the lectures will be presented so it is accessible to those without a scientific background, so the general public will be able to gain a clear understanding of the issues,\u201d said Spivack.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to the lectures, 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty members will use film clips to discuss the topic in a sometimes irreverent way. For instance, Rebecca Robinson and John Merrill will use documentary clips to unwrap the arguments in a discussion entitled \u201cThe Great Global Warming Hoax?\u201d on Sept. 16, while Kate Moran and Thomas Zorabedian will examine clips of Hollywood films to interpret the issues through the respective lenses of a scientist and a film buff on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe final event, on Dec. 9, will be \u201cIt\u2019s a Shore Thing: A Coastal Cabaret,\u201d which will use music to take a whimsical look at global environmental change along Rhode Island\u2019s coastlines.<\/p>\n


\n\t Throughout the fall season, an exhibit of maps created by Rhode Island\u2019s leading cartographers will be on display at several locations in the state. Entitled \u201cClimate Change in Rhode Island: A New Geography for the Ocean State,\u201d the exhibit will show how climate change might affect the region\u2019s coastal communities and ecosystems. From the serious to the silly, maps will examine the historic flooding that created the Scituate Reservoir, link increasing temperatures to increasing violence, and document the number of Dunkin Donuts stores in Rhode Island that may be flooded as sea level rises.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn collaboration with public libraries throughout Rhode Island, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Honors Colloquium will partner with book clubs to recommend readings on climate change, its economic impacts, mitigation strategies, and the role of local action to address the global problem. Towards the end of the semester, 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and graduate students will visit interested book clubs to lead discussions about the books.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe major sponsor of the 2008 Honors Colloquium is the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, while sustaining sponsors are the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the President, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program, the Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment, and the Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment. Leadership sponsors are the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography and the College of Arts and Sciences, with additional support from the Environmental Data Center, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Natural Resources Science, R.I. Center for the Book at Providence Public Library, R.I. Office of Library and Information Services, R.I. Sea Grant College Program, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, 溏心vlog免费B站 Classroom Media Services, 溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Institute, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s colleges of business administration, engineering, environment and life sciences, human science and services, nursing, and pharmacy, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Division of Student Affairs, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Division of University Advancement and the Alumni Association, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation, the 溏心vlog免费B站 offices of the Provost, Vice President for Administration, and Vice Provost for Information Technology Services, and University College.<\/p>\n

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\nFor further details about the colloquium, including an updated schedule and information on parking, go to www.uri.edu\/hc<\/a> or contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Center at 401-874-2381 or debg@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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