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Arlo Hemphill, Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford: (202) 746-3484, arlo@stanford.edu
Louis Bergeron, Stanford News Service: (650) 725-1944, louisb3@stanford.edu
Mark Shwartz, Woods Institute for the Environment: (650) 723-9296, mshwartz@stanford.edu
Video: http://www.centerforoceansolutions.org/copenhagen.html
Ten Stanford University researchers, experts in a broad range of subject areas involving climate
change, are scheduled to attend the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week and next. Most of them will be available for media
inquiries during the convention.
The Meeting:
Among the 15,000 participants from 193 nations who will be attending COP15, the 15th United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change <http://en.cop15.dk/> (UNFCCC), are 10
Stanford University researchers. Most of them will be available for media inquiries during the
convention (see contact information below).
Two press events are scheduled to include Stanford faculty as speakers. The first will be
Thursday, Dec. 10, when Stephen Schneider, professor of biology, will launch his latest book,
"Science as a Contact Sport <http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/SAACS/saacs_book.htm> :
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate," published by National Geographic Books.
A recent review on Newsweek's website <http://www.newsweek.com/id/225205> said the book
"... exposes the bare-knuckles infighting, bruising backroom brawls, and arm-twisting that
characterize climate science, of which Schneider,
<http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/index.html> now at Stanford University, has long been a
leading light."
Schneider was a coordinating lead author in Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change <http://www.ipcc.ch/> (IPCC). The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
with former vice president Al Gore. Working Group 2 focused on the vulnerability of
socioeconomic and natural systems to climate change and options for adapting to it. He has been
working on climate change issues since 1970, when he helped pioneer the discipline by coauthoring
the first published climate modeling review paper.
The second event will be on Monday, Dec. 14, when Stanford and Scripps Institute for
Oceanography will hold a joint press conference titled "The Oceans and Climate Change:
Perspectives from Science." Rob Dunbar, professor of environmental Earth system science, and
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland
(Australia) and co-director of the Stanford in Australia Program, are scheduled to speak.
Dunbar will be discussing his research on the Antarctic ice shelves, and Hoegh-Guldberg will
discuss his work on the impact of climate change on tropical ecosystems.
Also on Dec. 14, Dunbar and Hoegh-Guldberg will be speaking at two panels that are part of a
series of events for "Oceans Day" at the European Environmental Agency in Copenhagen. The
Center for Ocean Solutions <http://centerforoceansolutions.org/climate/> , of which Stanford is
one of three partners, is a co-sponsor of the day.
In the evening of Dec. 14, the center will co-sponsor a reception for government officials. Meg
Caldwell, executive director of the Center for Ocean Solutions and a senior lecturer at Stanford
Law School, will introduce a video segment in which Stanford researchers from Stanford and
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute explain the importance of the ocean to climate and
overall human survival. < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_H0h8-NbY >
Caldwell is also affiliated with Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment
<http://woods.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/index.php> , as are Dunbar, Schneider and many of the other
Stanford attendees.
The Center for Ocean Solutions is a collaboration of Stanford, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and
the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Approximately 50 Stanford students are also scheduled to attend the convention.
Contacts for reaching Stanford researchers at COP15:
Arlo Hemphill, (communications specialist, Center for Ocean Solutions): cell phone (202) 746- 3484, arlo@stanford.edu
Meg Caldwell (Center for Ocean Solutions): cell phone (408) 416-6542, megc@stanford.edu
Chris Field (Woods Institute for the Environment): cell phone 650-823-5326, cfield@ciw.edu
Stephen Schneider (Woods Institute for the Environment): shs@stanford.edu
