Climate Change & Agriculture: Learning Lessons & Proposing Solutions
Speaker:
Cynthia Rosenzweig
28 Feb 2007
7:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cynthia Rosenzweig is a research agronomist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and leader of its Climate Impacts Group. She recently led an international, interdisciplinary project to study the potential impacts of climate change on world food supply, trade, and risk of hunger. She is coauthor, with Daniel Hillel, of Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture (1998). The John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.