Talk: “Corals and Climate Change: Life after Death on a Remote Pacific Reef” by Kim Cobb
- Event Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017
- Time: 4:00pm (CDT)
- Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Cost: Free Admission
Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
In this talk, Professor Kim Cobb will share her experiences from recent field expeditions to Kiritimati Island, exposing the extreme coral bleaching effects of the largest El Niño event ever recorded in the winter of 2015–16. Cobb’s research on corals illustrates how climate change is contributing to severe coral bleaching and mortality, and begins to describe what life after death looks like for a coral reef.
The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross–disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.
This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment in conjunction with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Global Studies, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Geology, Department of Plant Biology, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, School of Earth, Society and Environment, School of Integrative Biology, and the Spurlock Museum.