Chancellor Drake Welcomes Climate Conference Guests

Chancellor Michael Drake welcomed more than 250 campus and community guests May 9 to the “Global Change and Oceans” conference hosted by the Newkirk Center for Science & Society and the Department of Earth System Science. Participants discussed a variety of issues impacting the health of the world’s oceans, including climate change, ocean acidification and rising sea levels.

Wallace Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University, gave the keynote address on using radiocarbon dating to predict climate change. He is perhaps the world’s foremost interpreter of Earth’s operation as a biological, chemical and physical system. The event was part of a series titled “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century” hosted by the Newkirk Center and UCI. The next events in the series, held in the Beckman Center, occur in November.

Chancellor Drake greets participants at the “Global Change and Oceans” conference. From left: Joe DiMento, Newkirk Center director, law and planning, policy & design professor; Chancellor Drake; Wallace Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University; Nobel Laureate F. Sherwood Rowland, Donald Bren Research Professor in Chemistry; Ellen Druffel, Earth system science professor; and Marcia McNutt, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute president and CEO.

Photo by Paul R. Kennedy
Newkirk Center for Science & Society
Department of Earth System Science
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