[CRYOLIST] ARCUS D.C. Arctic Research Seminar Series Announcement - Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette on Friday, 15 January 2016

Dear Colleagues,

The inaugural speaker for the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) D.C. Seminar Series has been selected.  Based upon the results of a survey of the D.C. Arctic research and policy community, Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts and Chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board will be coming to speak.  You are invited to attend her presentation on "Sea Level and Polar Warming: How Past Climate Change Informs Us about Ongoing Sea Level Rise," which will take place at the ARCUS D.C. office and via live webinar on Friday, January 15, 2016 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series will bring some of the leading Arctic researchers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean for decision-making in clear and understandable terms.  The seminars are open, and will be of interest to Federal agency officials, Congressional staff, NGOs, associations, and the public.  Please help us by spreading the word to your colleagues and others who might be interested.

Registration is now available online at http://tinyurl.com/ARCUS-Sea-Level-Seminar.  Space is limited for this free seminar, so please sign up today.  This event is a brown-bag lunch.  Cookies and beverages will be provided.  A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person.  Instructions for accessing the webinar will be sent to 'Webinar Only' registrants prior to the event.  Further details are below.

I look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an interesting and informative presentation.

Thank you, and Happy New Year,
Bob

ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series: Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts

Presentation Title: Sea Level and Polar Warming: How Past Climate Change Informs Us about Ongoing Sea Level Rise

Abstract: Scientists now have a better understanding of how vulnerable ice sheets and glaciers are to small amounts of polar warming.  Ongoing sea level rise due to the loss of ice mass into the sea is and will impact coastlines profoundly but to different degrees — i.e., the oceans are not a simple bathtub subject to uniform sea level rise.  Adaptation may require a range of actions.

Bio: Dr. Brigham-Grette has been on the faculty at UMass since 1987. Her research interests are on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and chronology of geologic systems that record the climate evolution and sea level history of the Arctic over the past 3.5 Million years, when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was ~400 ppm.  Her research program is largely aimed at documenting the global context of ancient environmental change across "Beringia", i.e., the Bering Land Bridge, stretching across the western Arctic from Alaska and the Yukon into northeastern Russia and adjacent marginal seas. Brigham-Grette is the U.S. Chief Scientist of the El'gygytgyn Lake Scientific Drilling project, a multinational program leading to the first unprecedented recovery of a 3.6 million year old record of Arctic paleoclimate in 2009. She has also been studying with her graduate students evidence of past sea ice changes and paleoceanography across the Arctic-Pacific gateway.  Since 2005, she has collaborated with colleagues at Northern Illinois University conducting a research program for undergraduate students on the massive retreat of Svalbard tidewater glaciers.

When: Friday, January 15, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST) - Add to Calendar
Where: ARCUS DC Office - 1201 New York Avenue, NW. Fourth Floor. Washington, DC 20005 - View Map
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Registration (required) is now available online at http://tinyurl.com/ARCUS-Sea-Level-Seminar.

— 
Robert H. Rich, Ph.D., CAE

Executive Director
Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)

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