The Institute of Biology invites you to attend its Affiliated Societies Forum: Climate Change and the Biologist

Programme

11.00 Registration

11.30 Introduction – Dr Hugh Montgomery (Chairman)

11.45 Sari Kovats – ‘Climate and human health: current impacts and future threats’

12.25 Dr Andrew Stott – ‘The science needed for policy: understanding and responding to climate change impacts on biodiversity’

12.50 – Lunch

1.30 Prof Katherine Willis – Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change

2.10 Prof James Crabbe – ‘Climate Change and Tropical Marine Ecology’

2.50 Concluding discussion

3.00 Close

Please contact events [ at ] iob.org to reserve your place as soon as possible

Dr Hugh Montgomery is the Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year on Back from the Brink: the Science of Survival. He is also a children’s author and has written the Genie in the Bottle as part of Project Genie which aims to educate and engage young people in the climate change debate.

Sari Kovats is a Lecturer in the Public and Environmental Health Research Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Editor of the Department of Health update on Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK 2008.

Dr Andrew Stott is Defra’s Head of Biodiversity and Landscape, Natural Environment branch with an interest in global biodiversity assessment systems.

Prof Katherine Willis is Professor of Long-Term Ecology at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford actively researching the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.

Prof James Crabbe is Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science at the University of Bedfordshire and has a long standing interest in modelling biological systems.

Registration required:

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Free:

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