Changing Earth's Climate

Tuesday August 26, 2008 7 p.m.
AMU MPR (Rain Site: Ritz Auditorium)

Dr. Todd Albert from Bowling Green State University will speak on “Changing Earth’s Climate.” Dr. Albert is a physical geographer specializing in the study of global climate change, especially the interrelations of glaciers and ice sheets to the global climate system. He has published papers on methods to study changes in ice cover via satellite remote sensing and is the GLIMS Steward to the Quelccaya Ice Cap, the largest tropical ice cap in the world. 

Dr. Albert has conducted field work on the Greenland Ice Sheet, studying the intensity of melt along an elevation transect, and has ongoing research there and in the tropical Peruvian Andes mountains. His work in Peru also involves collaboration with anthropologists, geologists, climatologists, botanists, glaciologists, hydrologists, and soil microbiologists. Recent NASA and NOAA-funded research has focused on the changing ice distribution and the factors influencing melt on tropical and Arctic glacier systems.

Dr. Albert is deeply concerned with global climate change and urges everyone to take a strong stance in reducing their own carbon emissions.