Schweppe Lecture Series

Dr. Brian Fry
Louisiana State University

Thursday, July 10, 2008, 7:00 PM
Visitors Center Auditorium

"Global Climate Change"

There is no scientific issue as contentious as global climate change. This lecture reviews the more and less certain projections of climate change for the next 100 years, projections that for example include 5m rises in sea level that would inundate low-lying areas such as coastal Texas. A conclusion is that while science can help guide thinking about complex issues such as climate change, scientific certainty evolves only very slowly, usually over decades, and is usually quite elusive. For climate change, the trick is learning how to make better long-term decisions using the uncertain science of today.

Dr. Fry is a Professor at the Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University.  His research interests are in the areas of Ecosystem and landscape ecology; Food webs; Biogeochemistry; and Stable Isotopes.

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The free lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Visitors Center of The University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, and the public is invited to attend. Dr. Godwin's visit to the Marine Science Institute is part of the Laura Randall Schweppe Endowed Lecture Series in Marine Science.