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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Extreme climate events on a regional scale"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Zoran Ristovski\, School of Earth and Atmospheric Science
 s\, QUT\, Brisbane Australia\nAbstract: \nExtreme climate events on a regi
 onal scale will be felt long before we can mitigate global warming. These 
 events are a known and accelerating consequence of climate change\, and th
 eir impacts are already evident worldwide. Society is decades away from re
 ducing 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. Th
 ese solutions must be socially acceptable and scalable in terms of deploym
 ent and cost. One of these regional adaptations is the use of solar radiat
 ion management (SRM) technologies to reduce the incoming solar radiation.
  As part of a major Australian government initiative\, the Reef Restorati
 on 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 p
 rogress in developing these technologies and discuss future directions.\n\
 nBiography:\nProfessor 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 At
 mospheric Sciences School and director of the Centre for Environment at QU
 T and is currently the editor in-chief of Atmospheric Environment X. He ha
 s supervised over 35 PhD students to completion and published over 270 pee
 r reviewed journal publications related to various aspects of airborne par
 ticles. His interest spans from projects related to airborne infection tra
 nsmission\, over solar radiation management to airborne particle pollution
 . He is a recipient of a number of grants both from the Australian governm
 ent and industry as well as international (EU) grants. \n \n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
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