UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011 (original) (raw)

UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011

Troisième événement: l'Evolution du Climat

Professor Jean Jouzel, Nobel Laureate (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace / Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement)

Professor Chris Rapley CBE (Director, Science Museum, London; UCL Chair of Climate Science)

Venue Roberts G06, UCL, followed by a reception in the Roberts Foyer

5–7pm, 19 January 2011

In his lecture Professor Jouzel will speak on the contribution of palaeodata to the evidence for human-induced climate change. In his response Professor Rapley will focus on the importance of effective communication of climate research and monitoring by scientists to the public, policymakers and politicians.

The event is the third in a series proposed by UCL’s Pro-Provost (Europe), Professor Mike Wilson, and Dr Serge Plattard, Counsellor for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in London, in which distinguished researchers based in France and at UCL speak and debate on issues of major contemporary importance at the interfaces between science, technology and society.

The UCL–French Embassy Conférence–Débat Series 2010/2011 is sponsored by the French Embassy, the UCL Pro-Provost (Europe), and by the UCL Grand Challenges programme of the Office of the UCL Vice-Provost (Research).

Speaker biographies

Jean Jouzel

Professor Jean Jouzel is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is a world-renowned specialist in major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice. He received with Claude Lorius the CNRS gold medal, the highest French scientific award. Jean has spent his research career in CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique), which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE (the Environmental Chemistry Modelling Laboratory), a CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; and in 1995 its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory; and from 2001 to 2008 he was director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LSCE. He has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1994 and IPCC vice president since 2002. With his IPCC colleagues, he shares with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to IPCC management.

Chris Rapley

Professor Chris Rapley CBE is Director of the Science Museum, London, and Professor of Climate Science at UCL. This follows a decade as Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and four years as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) He has a first degree in Physics from Oxford, an MSc in Radioastronomy from Manchester University, a PhD in X-ray astronomy from UCL. He has received honorary DScs from the University of Bristol and the University of East Anglia, and has been appointed a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute. He is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge, a Fellow of UCL and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Chris was awarded the 2008 Edinburgh Science Medal for having made ‘a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity’. He was recently elected to membership of the Academia Europaea.

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