January 7 — Prof. Gabriel Filippelli discusses global climate change
At what rate is the planet’s climate changing? What are the on-the-ground effects? How can they be modeled? What are the risks/potential for climate surprises? IUPUI’s top climatologist provides the best answers available, and challenges people of faith to take responsibility for our actions.
When: Monday January 7, 7 – 8:30 pm
Where: St Luke’s North United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall 100 West 86th Street, Indianapolis, 46260
St Luke’s Green Ministry’s mission is to celebrate God’s creation by Educating, Encouraging and Enabling the St. Luke’s United Methodist Church community to conserve resources and renew environmental harmony.
Gabriel Filippelli is Professor and Department Chair of Earth Sciences and Associate Director, Center For Environmental Health at Indiana University. He has worked extensively on the chemistry and geologic history of nutrient cycling in the ocean and on land. Current research projects involve determining the controls on nutrient cycling on land during glaciation, examining the timing and driving forces of biological productivity in the ocean, assessing the content and distribution of the potentially harmful element mercury in coal resources of Indiana and examining the links between lead distribution and children’s blood lead levels in urban areas.
Know before you go … For a sense of how climate change might be felt in the Midwest, see this article from the Indianapolis Star; for more detail, see the study from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change: “The Heat is On: Climate Change & Heatwaves in the Midwest”
If this event sounds interesting, check out …Prof. Filippelli is sure to be featured at the mega-event at IUPUI January 26, “Global Warming: An Environment for Change?” For a contrasting perspective, one skeptical of whether global climate change is even occurring, see Steven Hayward April 29.
January 5th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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