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CLIMATE PIONEER TO SPEAK IN HOBART

Climate pioneer Emeritus Professor Ted Moore will speak at the University of Tasmania this Friday night on whether the lessons we have learned from past climate will help us manage future climate change.

Based on studies of Earths modern climate, we have a fairly good idea how increases in global green house gases will affect Earth’s climate in the future, including higher global temperatures, rising sea level, and more intense storms. About 50 million years ago, Earth experienced a greenhouse climate similar to that predicted for our immediate future.
Professor Moore asks: Will the lessons learned from this time help us to mitigate predicated changes in modern climate?

Ted Moore has a distinguished record of service to three generations of ocean drilling programs. Almost immediately after earning a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1967, Ted began participating in scientific ocean drilling. His contributions to science were instrumental in developing the field of paleoceanography. Early in his career, he participated in the original CLIMAP reconstruction of glacial maximum temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. While his study areas have included the Arctic Ocean and South Atlantic, he remains partial to understanding Pacific Ocean sedimentation, stratigraphy, and paleoceanography.

Professor Moore will be speaking as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s (IODP) inaugural lecture series: IODP DRILLS is the topical scientific lecture series to feature prominent, internationally known scientists describing scientific results derived from samples retrieved from beneath the ocean floor. His visit is jointly sponsored by the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC and the Geological Society of Australia (Tasmania Division).

This lecture is free and open to the public