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SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
09/16/05
Assessing Observed Changes in Natural and Managed Ecosystems
Cynthia Rosenzweig – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies - 3:00 PM, Whitman Auditorium
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She co-led the Metro-politan East Coast Regional Climate Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report.
A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, her work links impact models with global and regional climate models to predict changes in urban systems under altered climate conditions. In addition to her position as research scientist at the NASA Goddard Center for Space Studies, she holds joint appointments as Professor of Environmental Science at Barnard College and Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.
Dr. Rosenberg received a B.S. in Agricultural Sciences from Cook College of Rutgers University, an M.S. in Soil and Crops from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences from the University of Massachusetts. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.
SUGGESTED READING
Root, T. L., K. R. Price, et al. 2003. Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. Nature: 421: 57-60.
Parmesan, C. and G. Yohe. 2003. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature: 421 (6918): 37-42..
Additional Readings:
Rosenzweig, Cynthia and Daniel Hillel. 1998. Climate Change and The Global Harvest: Potential Effects of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture. Oxford University Press. New York. 324 pp.
Rosenzweig, C. and D. Hillel. 2000. Soils and global climate change: Challenges and opportunities. Soil Science 165(1):47-56.
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