Penn Staters Involved in U.S. Climate Forum

11-11-97
University Park, Pa. --- Penn State faculty will participate in an upcoming White House-sponsored U.S. Climate Forum, where leading researchers from around the nation will debate "The Consequences of Global Change for the Nation."

Scheduled for Nov. 12 and 13 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., the forum is the culmination of a series of regional workshops on climate change, including the Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in the Mid-Atlantic Region, held September at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn.

Leading off the forum proceedings will be a talk by Dr. Eric Barron, director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, who will speak on the "Scientific Understanding of Climate Change."

A highlight on Wednesday evening will be an address by Vice President Al Gore.

The forum is sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the United States Global Change Research Program, in collaboration with the National Research Council. Ann Fisher, senior scientist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has served as a member of the forum's steering committee.

Other Penn State participants invited to the two-day meetings include: Robert Crane, associate dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; C. Gregory Knight, director of the Center for Integrated Regional Assessment (CIRA); Brent Yarnal and William Easterling of the Department of Geography; and Jim Shortle, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

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