Join us for a lecture titled "Risks of destabilization of the carbon cycle," featuring Philippe Ciais. Dr. Ciais is leading a new project called Carbon Loss in Plants, Soils, and Oceans (CALIPSO). The project will assess how much the natural carbon cycle could be destabilized by climate change, which is partly determined by where carbon ends up. 

To understand this, CALIPSO will assess carbon loss from plants, soils and the ocean, using new observations, theoretical understanding, machine-learning tools and integration of processes with Earth System Models. The project will also investigate how increasingly frequent extreme events may trigger a destabilization of biological carbon reservoirs.

This public lecture is intended for a broad audience and we encourage students, faculty, and staff from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to attend.

The lecture will take place on Thursday, December 5 from 4-5 PM, followed by a reception. 

Philippe Ciais is a senior researcher at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Saclay, France, and author of more than 1200 peer-reviewed publications, cited 200,000 times (H-index: 204). He is among the top- 1% most-cited scientists in both Geosciences and Ecology, ranked the most productive scientist in the field of climate change, and in the top-5 influential authors. Over the last two decades P.C. worked on the terrestrial GHG fluxes. P.C. co-chaired the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an international organization coordinating the effort of 80 research institutions to quantify trends in the carbon cycle, and acted as Convening Lead Author of the IPCC in the 5th Assessment Report. P. C Is an Elected Member of the French Academy of Sciences and a foreign Elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences