Session: Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation: II

Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation: II

Monday, November 2, 2009: 1:10 PM-5:15 PM

Convention Center, Room 325, Third Floor

Organizers:

Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig

1:10 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:15 PM

Climate Models for Agricultural Impacts: Scales and Scenarios.
Linda Mearns, Natl. Center for Atmospheric Res.

1:30 PM

Rain Amounts and Temporal Distribution: The Thousand-Pound Gorilla in Projecting Crop Yields in Response to Climate Change.
Thomas Sinclair, Univ. of Florida

Audio File Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

Impact of Global Climate Change On Weed Biology and Management.
Lewis H. Ziska, USDA-ARS

2:00 PM

Climate Change Affects On Plant-Pest- Natural Enemy Interactions.
Andrew Paul Gutierrez, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Luigi Ponti, Gruppo; Gianni Gilioli, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria

2:15 PM

Climate Impacts On Agriculture in the United States: Understanding the Value of Past Observations.
Jerry L. Hatfield, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.

Audio File Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

African Agriculture in 2050: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options.
David B. Lobell, Stanford Univ.; Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia Univ.; Marshall Burke, Stanford Univ.

2:45 PM

Discussion

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Modes of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change.
William Easterling, Pennsylvania State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

Creating Positive Soil and Ecosystem Carbon Budgets.
Rattan Lal, Ohio State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

Quantification and Decision Support Tools for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture.
Keith Paustian, Colorado State Univ.

Audio File Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

Role of Biochar in Mitigation of Climate Change.
Johannes Lehmann, Cornell Univ.

4:15 PM

The Adaptation Impacts of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mitigation in Agriculture: Policy & Programming Implications.
John Van D. Lewis, Terra Global Capital

4:30 PM

Economics of Agricultural Impacts, Adapation, and Mitigation.
John M. Reilly, MIT

4:45 PM

Discussion

5:10 PM

Concluding Remarks

5:15 PM

Adjourn

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