Ocean, biology, and climate - Professor Katherine Richardson

In this first ROCS lecture series talk, Professor Katherine Richardson, leader of ROCS and the Sustainability Science Centre in Copenhagen, talks about why ocean biology matters for climate concerns and delineates the questions being addressed in ROCS.

While the potential effects of climate change on living organisms maintain a general sense of urgency, matters of how changes in biological communities may affect climate receive limited attention. Changes in ocean biology are believed to be critical for climate development but we still don’t understand these interactions well enough to properly include them in predictions of future climate. This talk explains why we think ocean biology is important for climate and outlines the questions being addressed in ROCS.

The event is an hour long. We begin with a lecture after which we welcome questions and discussions from the audience.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LECTURE STARTS AT 13:15 ICELANDIC TIME / 15:15 DANISH TIME.

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The ROCS lecture series invite leading scholars across disciplines to discuss research on diverse topics involving ocean, climate, and society. The aim of the series is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for multiple layers of similar concerns and explore the interconnections that emerge when topics on ocean, climate, and society are brought into critical proximity with one another.

ROCS is a transdisciplinary centre that applies innovative technologies and analysis that, for the first time, enables descriptions of entire ecosystems in relation to climate development through historical time and the heritages of human societies. The overarching aim is to elucidate how human-ecosystem-climate relationships shape past, present, and future worlds. For further information about ROCS please visit https://rocs.ku.dk

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ROCS is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, the Icelandic State and Rannís.

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