Scientific Symposium Presentation Abstracts
September 19
Dr. Robert Bindschadler: Why Predicting West Antarctic Ice Sheet Behavior is So Hard: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and How We Will Find Out
Dr. Malcolm Bowman: Protecting Against Coastal Flooding in the New York Metropolitan Area and Long Island
Dr. Virginia Burkett: The Gulf Coast: Increasing Vulnerability to Storms and Sea Level Rise
Dr. Judith Curry: The Potential for Hurricane Intensification in a Greenhouse-Enhanced World
Dr. Devra Lee Davis: Changes in Severe Weather and Climate: Implications for Human Health
Dr. Andrew E. Derocher: Polar Bears in a Warming Arctic
Dr. Anthony C. Janetos: Where Will Ecosystems Go?
Dr. Eric S. Kasischke: Increasing Vulnerability of Alaska’s Boreal Forest as a Result of Climate Warming and the Changing Fire Regime
Dr. Michael S. Kearney: The Potential for Significant Impacts on Chesapeake Bay
Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman: Increasing the Resilience of Our Coasts
Dr. Michael MacCracken: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Claire L. Parkinson: Changes in Polar Sea Ice Coverage
Dr. A. Barrie Pittock: Ten Reasons Why Climate Change May Be More Severe than Projected
Dr. Eric Rignot: Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Implications for Global Sea Level Rise
