University of Connecticut
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment – Public In-person Event
Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 4:00pm (EDT)
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center, UConn Storrs campus
Sarah Cooley
Director of Climate Science
Ocean Conservancy, Washington, D. C.
“The promise and the peril of ocean-based solutions to climate change”
Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, April 21 at 4:00pm EDT in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center on the UConn Storrs campus.
As Director of Climate Science at Ocean Conservancy, Dr. Cooley combines her science and communication skills to educate and engage decision-makers and stakeholders from every political perspective on ocean acidification, identifying ways that different groups can take action. Her goal is to show that this issue is relevant and impacting people today to gain long-term support to protect communities, cultures and livelihoods from the threat of ocean acidification.
After spending several years as an ocean carbon cycle researcher, mostly at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Dr. Cooley wanted a chance to work at the border between science and policy. Instead of doing scientific research and hoping someone would pick it up and use it, she wanted to help bring new science directly into policy that would create action and positive change for the ocean. So she moved to Ocean Conservancy, where she does that work every day. She also gets to write about science and decode its mysteries for people who don’t see the secret logic of chemistry the same way she does.
Dr. Cooley is currently a Coordinating Lead Author on Working Group II of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report, and chapter author on the 5th National Climate Assessment. She has also served as Review Editor on the 4th National Climate Assessment, and Lead Author on the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report, as well as the author of dozens of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles in high-impact journals including Science and Nature Climate Change.
This event is open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu