1.5* Minute Climate Lectures

This event is co-hosted by Penn Arts & Sciences and Climate Week at Penn.

What a summer! Out of control wildfires in regions throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Extreme heatwaves in Asia, the Americas, and Europe, with some places reporting temperatures in excess of 50°C (122°F). Extreme rainfall and flooding that caused landslides and turned roads into raging rivers. Oceans that registered off-the chart temperatures—in one case, 101°F just off the coast of Florida. Severe and enduring droughts in Africa and the Mediterranean. Record low sea ice in Antarctica.

For this year’s 1.5* Minute Climate Lectures during Climate Week at Penn 2023, seven University of Pennsylvania experts will share their perspective on these extreme weather and climate events and their impacts, putting together the big picture.

Following the lectures,  Paul Sneigowski, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, will moderate a Q&A.

Faculty Presenters:

Heat
R. Jisung Park, Assistant Professor, School of Social Policy and Practice

Fire
Nicholas Pevzner, Assistant Professor, Weitzman School of Design

Drought
Allison Lassiter, Assistant Professor, Weitzman School of Design

Floods
Matthijs Bouw, Professor of Practice and McHarg Center Fellow for Risk and Resilience, Weitzman School of Design

Oceans
Irina Marinov, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Science

Ice
Sergey Molodtsov, Post Doctoral Researcher, Earth and Environmental Science

Our Fragile Moment
Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science; Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability  and the Media

Can't make it to the lecture? Watch a recording of this event on Facebook or Twitter @PennSAS the next day. 

For more information about Climate Week at Penn, click here.