Live Webcast Event
Global Warming and Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea Levels
David Vaughan, British Antarctic Survey
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
For further information and to access the webcast, please go to:
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/ols/lectures/Vaughan/
or contact:
Brian Zavala
Environmental Science Institute
University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 512-471-5847
E-mail: brian.zavala [at] mail.utexas.edu
The Environmental Science Institute and Jackson School of Geosciences at
University of Texas at Austin announce a live webcast event, "Global
Warming and Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea Levels," presented by David
Vaughan, glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey. The webcast will
take place on Wednesday, 28 March 2007, at 7:00 p.m. Central Daylight
Time (4:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time; 5:00 p.m. PDT; 6:00 p.m. MDT; 8:00
p.m. EDT; Thursday, 29 March, 12:00 a.m. UTC/GMT).
In parts of Antarctica, rates of climate warming are the highest in the
Southern Hemisphere - in another part, there has been a cooling. A
recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
identifies the response of the great ice sheets of Antarctica and
Greenland to climate change as the greatest uncertainty in projections
of sea level rise. The webcast will include discussions of how to
interpret the complex patterns of climate change, the implications for
the future of Antarctica, and why, when much other climate science seems
to be converging, there is uncertainty in this area.
For further information and to access the webcast, please go to:
http://www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/ols/lectures/Vaughan/