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Waleed Abdalati to Give Keynote Address at the White House

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:38:58 +0000

Waleed Abdalati to Give Keynote Address at the White House Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/11/2015 - 20:38

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Domestic Policy Council invited Department of Geography professor Waleed Abdalati to deliver a keynote at a citizen science forum, “Open Science and Innovation: Of the People, For the People, By the People”, on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The forum is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on the White House complex.

In the 2013 Second Open Government National Action Plan, President Obama called on agencies to harness the ingenuity of the public by accelerating and scaling the use of open innovation methods such as citizen science and crowdsourcing. Through this Plan, the Administration committed to expand its use of crowdsourcing and citizen science programs to further engage the public in problem solving and, as part of the 2015 White House Science Fair, made a commitment to hold a Citizen Science Forum.

This forum will bring together citizen science professionals, researchers, and stakeholders from local, state, Federal, and Tribal governments; academia; non-profits; and the private sector to celebrate the contributions of crowdsourcing and citizen science to enhancing agencies’ missions, and scientific and societal outcomes. It will also enable cross-sector discussions to spur bigger, better, and bolder citizen science and crowdsourcing utilization across a number of important challenges facing the Nation, such as the preservation of pollinators, monitoring drought conditions, recovering from coastal flooding, and low cost instrumentation for health.

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Tim Oakes appointed Director of Center for Asian Studies

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:45:43 +0000

Tim Oakes appointed Director of Center for Asian Studies Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/07/2012 - 09:45

Tim Oakes will serve a four-year appointment as Director of the Center for Asian Studies beginning July, 2012. CAS was founded in 1998, and brings together faculty, students, and community members to encourage and support scholarship about Asia across disciplinary and regional boundaries. The Center oversees the Asian Studies curriculum, which is taught by over 100 affiliated faculty members in 21 departments and 6 professional schools at ��Ƶ, offering over 300 courses fully or partially devoted to Asia.

See Center for Asian Studies for more information.

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Rory Cowie Receives Church Award

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:13:49 +0000

Rory Cowie Receives Church Award Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/01/2010 - 21:13

Graduate student Rory Cowie receives Church award for best student presentation ($150) at the Western Snow Conference in Logan, Utah

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��Ƶ-Boulder Contingent Set for Copenhagen Climate Conference

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:17:13 +0000

��Ƶ-Boulder Contingent Set for Copenhagen Climate Conference Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:17

A contingent from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be attending the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen December 7 to 18.

Known as the 15th Conference of the Parties, or COP 15, the international climate conference will include representatives of 192 countries. The U.N. is seeking an agreement on reductions of greenhouse gas emissions that will either extend or replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol in order to reduce global temperature increases believed by scientists to be climbing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Events will include a presentation by ��Ƶ-Boulder's Waleed Abdalati, director of ��Ƶ-Boulder's Earth Science and Observation Center at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, on recent changes in polar ice cover and interactions between polar ice and the rest of Earth's climate system. Abdalati, also an associate professor in the geography department, will present the latest observations and research findings on Arctic sea ice and the rapidly changing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

In addition, ��Ƶ-Boulder has been admitted as an observer organization under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, entitling the university to nominate representatives to observe the sessions of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, including COP 15.

��Ƶ-Boulder observers confirmed for the Copenhagen conference to date include Marilyn Averill, an attorney who is a doctoral student in the environmental studies department and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and Assistant Professor Ben Hale of the environmental studies department. Both are members of ��Ƶ-Boulder's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, part of CIRES.

The University of Colorado Law School will have three observers at the Copenhagen conference: Associate Professor William Boyd, Senior Research Fellow Kevin Doran and Research Fellow Julie Teel. All three are with the school's Center for Energy and Environmental Security.

In addition, Richard Armstrong of CIRES and the National Snow and Ice Data Center is a member of a task force writing a document on the status of Earth's snow and ice resources that will be presented by Al Gore and Norway Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere at the conference.

Averill and INSTAAR Director Jim White coordinated the credentialing process for ��Ƶ-Boulder's designated observers at the climate conference.

Contacts:
Waleed Abdalati, 303-492-5087
Marilyn Averill, 303-443-4454

See more at ��Ƶ-Boulder News Center.

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