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Greenhouse gases in the Earth system: setting the agenda to 2030

22 - 23 February 2010 09:00 - 18:00

 

Please find below MP3 audio files recorded at this discussion meeting for the following talks and discussions.

Organisers

  • Professor Euan Nisbet, University of London, UK

    Euan Nisbet leads the atmospheric methane group at Royal Holloway, and focussing on the modern methane budget in both the Arctic and the Atlantic tropics. His geological work on the early Earth has been in Zimbabwe, Canada and Australia, especially in  in the Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe, studying komatiite volcanism, stromatolites and early microbial evolution.  He holds the Hutchison medal of the Geological Association of Canada and has given the William Smith (2003) and Fermor (2000) lectures of the Geological Society of London. Books include The Young Earth: an Introduction to Archaean Geology (Allen and Unwin), Living Earth (Harper Collins), and, on global change, Leaving Eden (C.U.P.), with later Chinese and German translations).

  • Professor Peter Liss FRS

  • Dr Andrew Manning, University of East Anglia, UK

  • Professor Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institute for Oceanography, USA

    Ralph is a climate scientist whose research interests include climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, ocean biogeochemistry, and carbon cycling.  Ralph received a B.S. in physics from Yale University in 1979, and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Harvard University in 1988. He was the first to demonstrate that the oxygen concentration of the global atmosphere is decreasing due to the burning of fossil-fuels and has directed a program to track this decrease since 1989.  Since 2005 he has also directed the Scripps CO2 program which sustains the iconic record of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa and other sites, begun by his father, Charles D. Keeling. He is engaged in ongoing research to refine estimates of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide using atmospheric measurements. Ralph is an active participant in teaching and advising graduate students at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.  He has given keynote addresses to the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the G8 Legislators and Business Leaders Climate Change Forum, and given the Bolin Lecture in Stockholm in 2011.  Keeling has received the Rosenstiel Award in marine and atmospheric chemistry, the Humboldt Research Award, and is a Union Fellow of the AGU.