Speaker: Professor Andrew Watkinson, LWEC

Date: 28th Oct 2009

Time: 5:00 pm reception? 6:00-7:00 pm lecture

Venue: Shackleton Lecture Theatre A? Highfield Campus

Society faces a range of challenges that will affect our environment and the way we live. If we continue on our current path? by the end of this century? or earlier? our environment will be in a state that modern humans have never experienced. We are confident that we can avoid many of the most seriously damaging consequences of a changing climate and environment? but only if we act with sufficient urgency and make the right choices about the future. Living With Environmental Change– the UK’s response to this urgent situation – is a major programme involving 20 UK organisations funding, undertaking and using environmental research that has the specific aim of delivering research more effectively to policy, business and society so that we can meet these challenges.

The seminar will explore how the LWEC partnership is evolving and how its ways of working are affecting the research landscape.

Who should attend: researchers, university staff and students plus organisations interested in all aspects of the science and policy of environmental change and its potential consequences.

About the speaker:

Before taking up the appointment as Director of LWEC in October 2008, Professor Watkinson was Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia where he took a particular interest in biodiversity and the impacts of climate change on the coastal zone. He was one of the lead authors on the Foresight report on Future Flooding and contributed to the latest IPCC assessment. He currently sits on Advisory Boards for Defra, NERC, TSB and CEFAS together with a number of LWEC programmes.

This event is free to attend. Please register by emailing: s.e.hanson@soton.ac.uk