2009 Press Releases

Global Warming: Sink or Swim?
15.01.2009

The impacts of future rises in sea level under global warming may have profound effects in the 21st century on about 40% of the world’s population. In the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series at UCC, Professor Robert Devoy will explore this and other questions of the impacts of global warming.
The lecture, titled “Global Warming: Sink or Swim? Global Warming and the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Society” will be delivered on Wednesday, January 21st 2009 at 8.00 pm in Boole IV Lecture Theatre.  

Robert Devoy is a Professor in Physical Geography at UCC and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Nobel Prize (2007) winning Fourth Assessment Report.  He has an international reputation in the field of coastal science, physical geography and palaeoenvironmental research.  Recently, his work has focused on the repercussions of climate change upon coastal processes and sea-level rise in particular.  Work on tsunamis in New Zealand is another topic of current research.  He was the founder and Director until 2002 of the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre (CMRC), UCC.

The SEFS Annual Public Lecture Series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS.  The series of lectures will run weekly until Wednesday 25th March. Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/SEFS_LectureSeries_2009.pdf

All the lectures will be filmed and the films will be posted on the UCC Public Understanding of Science website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie  The 2007 and 2008 Public Lectures are already posted on this website.
 
Admission to the lectures is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

Picture:  Professor Robert Devoy

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