Global Climate Change End Symposium

Join the Adler Planetarium and NASA Earth Explorers Institute on Saturday October 7th, from 9:30am to 3:30pm at Northwestern University's Chicago Campus, 303 E. Superior Ave. for the global climate change forums end symposium. Together with other concerned citizens you will use the knowledge acquired during these symposia to construct a set of recommendations that will be sent to local, state and federal policy leaders regarding global climate change. Breakfast, lunch and a cocktail reception will be provided.

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End Symposium Breakfast
Northwestern University – Chicago Campus
303 W. Superior Ave.
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Main Lobby – 9:30am – 10:30am

Guest Speaker
Dr. Waleed Abdalati – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Northwestern University – Chicago Campus
303 W. Superior Ave.
Hughes Auditorium – 10:30am – 11:30am (Including a 15min. Q & A session)

Dr. Abdalati has been head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center since January, 2004, conducting research on high–latitude glaciers and ice sheets using satellite and airborne instruments. He has led or participated in 9 field expeditions to remote regions of the Greenland ice sheet and the ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. From 2000 to the 2006, he managed NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Program, overseeing NASA–funded research efforts on glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and polar climate. During that time, he also served as Program Scientist for NASA's Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), which which has as its primary objective understanding changes in the Earth's ice cover.

Dr. Abdalati received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado's Program in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences in 1996 and worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from 1996 through 2000. Prior to earning his Ph.D. he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University (1986) and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado (1991) and worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry from 1986 – 1990. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House in 1999 and received a NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2004.

Break Out Discussion Sessions:
Northwestern University – Chicago Campus
303 E. Superior
Various Classrooms – 11:30am – 12:30pm

Discussion Sessions will be broken out into the following three areas:
Federal/International
Consumer/Business
State/National

Participants will chose the areas they would like to attend based on personal preference. Questions will be asked by moderators to facilitate discussion. Participants will document findings during discussion sessions. *

Break to Pick up Lunches – 12:30pm – 12:45pm
Return to Discussion Sessions – 12:45pm – 2:00pm

Conclusion:
Discussion Groups will report back to entire group.
Hughes Auditorium – 2:00pm – 2:30pm

Cocktail Hour:
Main Lobby – 2:30pm – 3:30pm

*Participants may bring a lap top if interested. Wireless access codes will be provided upon entering the symposium. Note: Access codes will only be provided to the first 100 participants.