Byrd Polar Research Center: Where’s the Water? Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Water in Latin America
Two speakers, one movie trailer, archival displays, tours of the polar research center, food, and time to interact with researchers…
Water is essential to all life on Earth. With the world population growing beyond 7 billion individuals, the demand for water resources will expand dramatically during a time when climate change is expected to alter the hydrologic cycle and impact the current distribution of water. What does this mean for people? This program will explore how water is monitored, measured, and modeled in Latin America and present our current understanding of changes anticipated over the next half century.
Dr. Doug Alsdorf
Dr. Douglas Alsdorf and his colleagues study the Amazon and Congo River Basins. He and his team are focused on understanding the massive amounts of water that move through these rivers and their associated wetlands. They are addressing questions such as: How does water fill and decant these systems? What is the relationship of the water volumes to the global water and carbon cycles?
Dr. Alvaro Montenegro
Dr. Alvaro Montenegro’s research interests encompass aspects of climate change and climate variability, particularly physical and biogeochemical processes, occurring at the scale of continents and the planet. He looks into these problems mainly using climate models, with a concentration on the role of the carbon cycle, while also employing observations. Some examples of scientific questions that Dr. Montenegro has attempted to answer include: What will climate be like 5000 years from now if we burn all available fossil fuel reserves? Will large scale planting of trees worldwide cool or warm the climate? Could ocean acidification have caused the global extinction event 250 million years ago?
Seating is limited. Please make your reservation online by clicking here where you will also find more detailed information about start times and parking. The two public lectures of the evening will also be live broadcast to http://bprc.osu.edu/live/ starting at 7:45 pm on March 6.
This event is sponsored by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Center for Latin American Studies, and Department of Geography. Please contact Jason Cervenec at cervenec.1@osu.edu or 614.688.0080 for more information.
Parking Information
The Byrd Polar Research Center is located at 1090 Carmack Rd, Columbus, OH 43210.
• Take 315 to the Lane Avenue exit. This is one of the major exits for The Ohio State University.
• Go West (left if you are coming from the South side of the city; right if you are coming from the North side of the city) onto Lane
Avenue.
• Once you are on Lane Avenue, pass Kenny Road.
• The next road (there will not be a traffic light) is Carmack Road. Take a left.
• Once on Carmack Road, continue to the large parking lot (just past the first stop sign you reach). There are kiosks throughout the lot where you can pay for parking. The center is a brief walk over the pedestrian bridge.
