1.5* Minute Student Climate Lectures
Join us Monday, October 14, for the 1.5* Minute Student Climate Lectures, inspired by the School of Arts & Sciences 1.5* Minute Climate Lecture series.
Student speakers:
*1.5 degrees Celsius = The maximum amount the average temperature can rise in order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming. We're already past 1.2 degrees Celsius.
1.5* Minute Student Climate Lectures
Moderator
Jon Hawkings
Jon Hawkings is a biogeochemist with broad expertise in the cycling of elements through the Earth system. His research centers on the role of glacial meltwater in downstream biogeochemical cycles, with a focus on how meltwater influences ecosystem structure and productivity, subglacial biogeochemical weathering, and the mobilization of nutrients and toxic elements in freshwater environments and their export to coastal ecosystems.
Jon’s research portfolio includes the study of supraglacial environments (cryoconite), ice sheet hydrology, and groundwater aquifers. He conducts extensive fieldwork in remote regions of the Arctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the tropics, with past expeditions to Svalbard, Greenland, India, Chile, and Antarctica. He is also a collaborator on the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project and has taught field skills on multiple trips to the European Alps.