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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T190000
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URL:https://lexcan.org/events/green-newton-lecture-challenges-facing-newto
 n-town-trees-in-a-changing-climate/
SUMMARY:Green Newton Lecture: Challenges Facing Newton Town Trees in a Chan
 ging Climate
DESCRIPTION:Drs. William Moomaw and Gilbert Rodgers will discuss the import
 ance of Newton’s town trees and how in the changing climate we are exper
 iencing this will affect their sustainability and growth. The Minerva Acti
 on Group is an independent organization of individuals with interest and e
 xpertise in climate issues and particularly in trees and woodlands. It has
  created and conducted exercises for students\, government officials\, and
  town’s people to understand the role of trees in capturing and sequeste
 ring carbon\, providing regional cooling and reducing flooding by evaporat
 ing water from their leaves. The discussion will suggest how to improve th
 e management of town trees to track these changes and alter practices. The
 re will time for informal discussion and light refreshments following the 
 program”\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by Union Church\, FUUSN Climate Action Team
 \, SHOL Care Creation Team\, and Green Newton\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\nWillia
 m Moomaw is Professor Emeritus\, Tufts University and Distinguished Visiti
 ng Scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center. He holds a PhD from MIT 
 and previously taught chemistry and was Director of Environmental Studies 
 at Williams College. He is a physical chemist who helped develop the first
  ozone layer protection legislation while working for the U.S. Senate\, an
 d has been a lead author of five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  (IPCC) Reports including the 2007 report that shared the Nobel Peace Priz
 e. He has published extensively on technical solutions to reduce climate a
 ltering emissions. He is currently working internationally and nationally 
 to identify and implement Natural Climate Solutions that accumulate additi
 onal atmospheric carbon out of the atmosphere in forests\, wetlands\, and 
 soils. In 2019\, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for t
 he Advancement of Science for his “contributions to our understanding of
  climate change and its global impacts and to the work of the Intergovernm
 ental Panel on Climate Change.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGilbert Rodgers is Se
 nior Managing Director of Energyzt\, an association of energy experts whos
 e goal is researching and communicating the impacts of integrated energy m
 arkets. In this role\, he oversees development of integrated energy market
  models focusing on insights into the changing dynamics of renewables\, fo
 ssil fuels\, and transportation industries. He has more than 40 years of e
 xperience in the energy industry and has held senior-level positions both 
 in the private sector and in the U.S. federal government. He was instrumen
 tal in setting up the data and analytical functions of the Federal Energy 
 Administration which became DOE. His background in climate science dates b
 ack to 2007 when at Global Insight (later became IHS) he developed and man
 aged a group on climate change. In research conducted while consulting wit
 h Energyzt\, he addressed green-house-gas emissions and impacts in many st
 udies including proposed electric transmission lines from Canada to the US
  and state and regional programs to achieve reduction of carbon emissions 
 to meet net zero-emission goals. As one of the leaders of the Minerva Acti
 on Group\, he initiated the student exercise estimating the amount of carb
 on capture by different species\, sizes\, and ages of trees. Another exper
 iment he formulated and implemented was observing micro-paricles of plasti
 cs commonly found in bottled drinking water.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Educational,Nature & Ecology
LOCATION:Union Church\, 14 Collins Rd\, Waban\, MA\, 02468\, United States
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