EESS talk on "Extreme climate events on a regional scale"
Event details
| Date | 17.09.2024 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Dr. Zoran Ristovski, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, QUT, Brisbane Australia |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract:
Extreme climate events on a regional scale will be felt long before we can mitigate global warming. These events are a known and accelerating consequence of climate change, and their impacts are already evident worldwide. Society is decades away from reducing warming, and intense local climate events will selectively impact human communities and degrade and destroy critical ecosystems long before then. Therefore, we need regional technological solutions that can buy us time until global-scale measures become effective. Without such regional solutions, we face irreversible losses within the next 10 to 30 years. These solutions must be socially acceptable and scalable in terms of deployment and cost. One of these regional adaptations is the use of solar radiation management (SRM) technologies to reduce the incoming solar radiation. As part of a major Australian government initiative, the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, significant efforts have been made to develop SRM technologies, such as marine cloud brightening and seawater fogging, to protect the Great Barrier Reef. This presentation will highlight our progress in developing these technologies and discuss future directions.
Biography:
Professor Ristovski is an atmospheric scientist with over 25 years of experience in the general area of aerosol sciences. He has held a number of leadership positions such as the inaugural head of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences School and director of the Centre for Environment at QUT and is currently the editor in-chief of Atmospheric Environment X. He has supervised over 35 PhD students to completion and published over 270 peer reviewed journal publications related to various aspects of airborne particles. His interest spans from projects related to airborne infection transmission, over solar radiation management to airborne particle pollution. He is a recipient of a number of grants both from the Australian government and industry as well as international (EU) grants.
Extreme climate events on a regional scale will be felt long before we can mitigate global warming. These events are a known and accelerating consequence of climate change, and their impacts are already evident worldwide. Society is decades away from reducing warming, and intense local climate events will selectively impact human communities and degrade and destroy critical ecosystems long before then. Therefore, we need regional technological solutions that can buy us time until global-scale measures become effective. Without such regional solutions, we face irreversible losses within the next 10 to 30 years. These solutions must be socially acceptable and scalable in terms of deployment and cost. One of these regional adaptations is the use of solar radiation management (SRM) technologies to reduce the incoming solar radiation. As part of a major Australian government initiative, the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, significant efforts have been made to develop SRM technologies, such as marine cloud brightening and seawater fogging, to protect the Great Barrier Reef. This presentation will highlight our progress in developing these technologies and discuss future directions.
Biography:
Professor Ristovski is an atmospheric scientist with over 25 years of experience in the general area of aerosol sciences. He has held a number of leadership positions such as the inaugural head of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences School and director of the Centre for Environment at QUT and is currently the editor in-chief of Atmospheric Environment X. He has supervised over 35 PhD students to completion and published over 270 peer reviewed journal publications related to various aspects of airborne particles. His interest spans from projects related to airborne infection transmission, over solar radiation management to airborne particle pollution. He is a recipient of a number of grants both from the Australian government and industry as well as international (EU) grants.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Prof. Julia Schmale, Laboratory EERL