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 Past Events2010 Climate Change and National Security: Securing Better Forecasts
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| Monday, June 21 | |
| 5:40 p.m. | Shuttle pick-up from hotels to Birch Aquarium begin, every 15 minutes |
| 6:00 p.m. | Reception, Birch Aquarium. Symposium keynote address: What do we know about Climate forecasting and what should we know for national security?(Dr. Walter Munk) |
| 8:45 p.m. | Shuttle drop-off to hotels begin, every 15 minutes |
| Tuesday, June 22 | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Shuttle pick-up from hotels to Scripps Forum begin, every 20 minutes |
| 7:45 a.m. | Breakfast and Conference Registration at Scripps Seaside Forum |
| 8:45 a.m. | Symposium Opening Remarks (Amb.(ret.) Reno Harnish) |
| Symposium Segment 1 | Physical climate impacts (precipitation, temperature, sea
level rise, glacier/snowpack, vector disease) for selected Pacific Rim
regions by decade |
| 9:00 a.m. | Advances in climate modeling: Key challenges in the projections and predictability of global climate change (Admiral(ret.) Conrad Lautenbacher, Dr. Vicky Pope) |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break with refreshments |
| 10:15 a.m. | Climate of Asia in 2035 (Prof. J. Srinivasan, Dr. David Pierce, Dr. Zhong-Xiang Zhang) |
| 11:15 a.m. | Implications in the Asia Pacific of the major ice-melt scenarios (Ambassador Ken Yalowitz, Dr. Helen Fricker) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15 p.m. | Department of Defense view on Climate Change national security implications and how the University can help (Deputy Assistant Secretary Amanda Dory) |
| Symposium Segment 2 | National Security Impacts |
| 2:15 p.m. | Climate change impacts on regional security and operations in the Asia-Pacific Command (Admiral David Titley, Dr. Ron Filadelfo, National Intelligence Officer Rich Engel) |
| 3:15 p.m. | Break with refreshments |
| 3:30 p.m. | Behavioral models for climate change (Dr. Larry Morgan, Dr. Joshua Graff Zivin) |
| 4:30 p.m. | Conflict from natural resource shortages (Air Marshal A.K. Singh, Antonia Yulo Loyzaga) |
| 5:30 p.m. | Shuttle pick-up from Scripps Forum to hotels, every 15 minutes |
| Wednesday, June 23 | |
| Symposium Segment 3 | Ensuring Better Forecasts |
| 7:30 a.m. | Shuttle pick-up from hotels to Scripps Forum begin, every 20 minutes |
| 7:45 a.m. | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. | Specific Improvements needed for better forecasting (Dr. Julie McClean, Dr. Jay Gulledge, Dr. Bruce Cornuelle) |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m | What is the way forward for climate data, modeling, forecasting, supercomputing capacity, next generation coupled global prediction system (Dr. Dan Cayan, Dr. John Orcutt, Dr. Frank Herr) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Wrap-Up Discussion and Closing Remarks (Reno Harnish) |
| 12:45 p.m. | Lunch and shuttle pick-up from Scripps Forum to hotels, every 15 minutes |
The official language of the workshop will be English. No translation will be available.
Speakers
Please select a speaker's name to view a PDF version of the presentation slides from the Climate Change and National Security Symposium.
- Shere Abbott, Associate Director Environment Division Executive Office of the President, OSTP
- Dr. Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Bruce Cornuelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Amanda Dory, U.S. Department of Defense, Deputy Assistant Secretary
- MG (ret.) Rich Engel, Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Dr. Ronald Filadelfo, Environment and Energy Team Director, CNA (See Report)
- Dr. Helen Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. Jay Gulledge, Senior Scientist and Director, Science and Impacts Program, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Dr. Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. Frank Herr, Head, Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department Office of Naval Research
- Admiral (ret.) Conrad Lautenbacher, Vice President, Science Programs for CSC Corporation, Applied
Technology Group, President of Antarctic
Research Support; former Administrator NOAA (See Outline)
- Antonia Yulo Loyzaga, Executive Director, Manila Observatory
- Dr. Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. Larry Morgan, National Security Science and Technology Programs National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Dr. Walter Munk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. David Pierce, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Predictions Programme, Hadley Center
- Air Marshal A K Singh (see bio), Indian Air Force, Chairman of the Military
Council on Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Security (See Article)
- Dr. Jayaram Srinivasan, Chairman, Divecha Centre for Climate Change Indian Institute of Science
- RADM David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, U.S. Naval Observatory
- Ambassador (ret.) Ken Yalowitz, Director, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (See Outline)
- Dr. Joshua Graff Zivin, Research Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; Associate Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
- Dr. ZhongXiang Zhang, East West Center
Related Links
- U.S. Department of State Fifth Climate Action Report
- UNFCCC COP 15
- Governor's Global Climate Summit 2: On the Road to Copenhagen
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- World Water Day
- Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC)
- New York Times Article on the Climate Change and National Security Symposium
IGERT Posters
- Conflict Climate and Interstate Conflict: Does Climate Change Matter Whether, When or Where Nations Flight?
- The Future of Food Insecurity
- Extreme Events: Frequency and Cost in the Face of Climate Change
- Heat Waves: The "Other" Natural Disaster
- Resilience to the Effects of Climate Change
- Impacts of Rising Sea Levels for National Security
- Fresh Water: Drinkable, Floods, and Droughts
- Implications of Climate Change for Human Disease and National Security
