Topic：CLIMATE CHANGE, DROUGHT AND GLOBAL ARIDIFICATION: UNDERSTANDING CONFIDENCE

Speaker: Professor Jonathan Overpeck, climate scientist and Dean of the University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability

Time: October 11, 2023, 15:00-16:00

Venue: 5th Floor Lecture Theatre, Sino-British International Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Bio

Professor Jonathan Overpeck is an interdisciplinary climate scientist, William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education and the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He has written over 200 published works on climate and the environmental sciences, served as a Working Group 1 Coordinating Lead Author for the Nobel Prize winning IPCC 4^th Assessment (2007), and also as a Working Group 2 Lead Author for the IPCC 5^th Assessment (2014). Other awards include the US Dept. of Commerce Gold Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Walter Orr Roberts award of the American Meteorological Society, and the Quivira Coalition’s Radical Center Award for his work with rural ranchers and land managers. Overpeck has carried out climate research programs on six continents and has led two major programs focused on regional climate adaptation. Overpeck recently served on the University of Michigan’s President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, and currently serves on the State of Michigan Governor’s Council on Climate Solutions, as well as the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Energy Commission and Carbon Neutrality Coordinating Committee. He has appeared and testified before Congress multiple times, is a Fellow of AGU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and tweets about environmental and climate-related issues @GreatLakesPeck.