Learn about Amazon forests and global climate change over breakfast
Susan Trumbore, professor of Earth system science, will talk on “Amazon Forests and Global Climate Change” as part of the 2007-08 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series at UC Irvine. This event is sponsored by the School of Physical Sciences.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Susan Trumbore, professor of Earth system science, will talk on “Amazon Forests and Global Climate Change” as part of the 2007-08 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series at UC Irvine. This event is sponsored by the School of Physical Sciences.
DATE: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 TIME: 7:30-9 a.m. LOCATION: University Club ( Bldg. 801 on campus map )
BACKGROUND: Radiocarbon dating shows that trees in Amazon forests grow very slowly compared to their temperate climate counterparts and can live to be surprisingly old. As the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon plays a major part in the Earth’s changing climate. Susan Trumbore will discuss her studies of Amazon forest dynamics, including the consequences of slow growth rates for forest management and the degree to which these forests might soak up fossil fuel carbon dioxide.
Trumbore, chair of the Department of Earth System Science, is the founding director of the Center for Global Environmental Change Research and the UCI Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Together with Ellen Druffel and John Southon, Trumbore established the W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at UCI in 2002. She served as the first elected president of the Biogeosciences Section of the American Geophysical Union and has been elected a fellow of the AGU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Jennifer Fitzenberger 949-824-3969 jfitzen@uci.edu
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