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Student Scholars Day 2012 Presentation and Event Information

Details of the SSD presentations and events will be listed below.  Please visit this page often as we will be adding information as it becomes available.

Presentation Documents:
(Please note: This information is correct as of March 1, 2012. Changes will be in the addendum the day of the event.)

Abstract Book: Click on the Abstact Book Cover to view as a pdf. (flip book coming soon)

Program Schedule:

Poster and Oral Presentations
Kirkhof Center and Henry Hall Atrium
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Keynote Lecture
Kirkhof Center 2204
Hors d'oeuvres 5:30 p.m.
Lecture 6:00 p.m.
"Ice and Water"
Dr. Henry Pollack

Abstract:

Ice and water are the two principal forms of H2O on Earth, but the proportions of each change as Earth's climate changes. During past ice ages extensive ice sheets spread over the northern continents and sea level dropped, permitting human migrations between the continents. In the present-day warming of the climate, ice is diminishing and sea level is creeping upward. If the warming continues, we will by mid-century see an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer, perhaps for the first time in human history. The loss of many mountain glaciers will lead to diminished agricultural, municipal and domestic water supplies, affecting a third of Earth's population. A sea-level rise of only one meter, likely by the end of the century, will displace coastal inhabitants worldwide, creating more than 100 million climate refugees.

About Dr. Pollack:

Henry Pollack is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Michigan, where he has taught at every level of the curriculum, from introductory courses for non-scientists to advanced graduate seminars. His current research activities focus on global climate change, as recorded by the temperatures in the rocks beneath the Earth's surface. Subsurface temperatures comprise an archive of past climate that reveals what Earth was like in the pre-industrial era, thus helping scientists to assess the human impact on Earth's climate. As Chair of the International Heat Flow Commission he coordinated a worldwide research program into geothermal evidence of global climate change.

Henry has served on many advisory panels for the National Science Foundation, testified before National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Senate committees, and provided briefings about climate change to Congress and the White House.  He was a Contributing Author to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Assessment Report, and now serves as a science adviser to Al Gore's Climate Reality Project. He is the author of Uncertain Science...Uncertain World (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and A World Without Ice (Penguin, 2009), which addresses global climate change as seen through the prism of ice.

See his interview with the Aquarium of the Pacific.