Cambridge, Md. (December 15, 2006) - Nationally renowned climate change expert Dr. Anthony Janetos will speak about issues surrounding climate change and ecological tipping points at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory on December 20.
The free event is open to the public and will be held in the Aquaculture and Restoration Ecology Laboratory Building at 11:00 a.m. Light refreshments will be served. Directions can be found at www.hpl.umces.edu .
Dr. Janetos is Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park and previously served as vice president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, D.C., where he directed the center's Global Change Program.
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Dr. Anthony Janetos |
He has written and spoken widely to policy, business, and scientific audiences on the need for scientific input and scientific assessment in the policymaking process and about the need to understand the scientific, environmental, economic, and policy linkages among the major global environmental issues.
The Horn Point Laboratory is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the principal research institution for advanced environmental research and graduate studies within the University System of Maryland. UMCES researchers are helping improve our scientific understanding of Maryland, the region and the world through its three laboratories - Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg, and Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge - and the Maryland Sea Grant College. |
