Lecture explores links between ecosystem and climate change

An award-winning Harvard University scientist who has examined the connections between ecosystems and climate change will speak at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 27, at UW–Madison.

Steven Wofsy, the Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science at Harvard, will lecture on the “Emergent Properties of Ecosystems: From Individual Tree to Continental Scales” at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. A reception will follow. The event is free and the public is welcome.

Wofsy has received NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal and the James B. MacIlwane Award of the American Geophysical Union for his research in atmospheric chemistry. His presentation is the fifth in a series of Roy F. Weston Global Distinguished Sustainability Lectures this year at UW–Madison. Weston, an alumnus of the university, founded Weston Solutions, Inc., an international environmental and redevelopment firm.

The Weston lectures are sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies), the department of civil and environmental engineering, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the Global Environmental Studies Research Circle at UW–Madison.

For more information, contact series coordinator Claus Moberg at (608) 265-8720, ccmoberg@wisc.edu.