UM Sponsors Climate Conference!

Major climate change is upon us, and the next 50 years will see dramatic and rapid changes in our environment. The impact will be international, where population migrations in the many tens of millions are a real possibility, and on almost every sector of our economy.

The University of Maryland is mobilizing a national effort to build the capacity to predict these changes in advance on time scales of seasons to decades, and to convert these predictions into information that government and industry can use to plan and adapt.

This will open many new opportunities, as the effort will require significant new research in computation, visualization, modeling and earth science.

As a first step, in cooperation with NOAA and NASA, the University is sponsoring a conference on Oct. 22 and 23, in which speakers from a wide spectrum of private industry and government will describe the most urgent information they will need to respond to these changes.

Faculty and students are strongly encouraged to attend: the registration fee has been kept artificially low for you ($50 for faculty, $25 for students). Aside from any professional interest this will give us all the chance to get a picture of what our future will be like!

To register, just go to the website: www.climateneeds.umd.edu

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