IEEE CTS Life Members Austin - Past, Present, and Future Climate Change Impacts on Water in a Semi-Arid Region: Science and Policy
The Austin Life Members' Group promotes the development of members through professional and social networking,addressing topics of interest to Life Members, including volunteer activities, and supports the IEEE Central Texas Section. Website: http://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/LM500051/
IEEE CTS Life Members Austin Monthly Meeting
The Life Members Group - Austin has settled on having meetings for a late lunch at 2 PM on the third Tuesday of each month. We will meet at PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse on Parmer Lane in Austin. This allow us to reserve a meeting room with food service without a large concern about the attendance. Once we have a number of regular attendees, we can consider moving to a lunch hour meeting, if the members would rather do that.
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- Date: 19 Jun 2018
- Time: 02:00 PM to 03:15 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave.
- Austin, Texas
- United States 78727
- Building: PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse
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Tom Grim, Vice Chairman, Life Members Austin
- Starts 07 June 2018 11:08 AM
- Ends 19 June 2018 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Jay Banner, Ph.D., BCES of University of Texas at Austin
Past, Present, and Future Climate Change Impacts on Water in a Semi-Arid Region: Science and Policy
Texas comprises the eastern portion of the South-west region, where the convergence of climatological and geopolitical forces has the potential to put extreme stress on water resources. Geologic records indicate that Texas experienced large changes in moisture sources and amounts on millennial time scales in the past, and over the last thousand years, tree-ring records indicate that there were significant periods of drought in Texas. These droughts were of longer duration than the 1950s “drought of record” that is commonly used in planning, and they occurred independently of human- induced global climate change.
Although there has been a negligible net temperature increase in Texas over the past century, temperatures have increased more significantly over the past three decades, and the region experienced a record drought in 2011 that is ongoing. Under essentially all climate model projections, Texas is susceptible to significant climate change in the future. Most projections for the 21st century show that with increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, there will be an increase in temperatures across Texas and a shift to a more arid average climate. Studies agree that Texas will likely become significantly warmer and drier, yet the magnitude, timing, and regional distribution of these changes are uncertain. With a projected doubling of the state’s population by 2065, science, engineering, and economics are essential elements needed for the state’s planning for the projected changes.
Biography:
Jay Banner was born and raised in New York City and was interested in science from an early age. He attended the University of Pennsylvania as a Chemistry major and switched majors to Geology partway through to his Bachelor’s degree. He pursued graduate studies in geology and geochemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received his MS and Ph.D.
After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Banner was a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and Louisiana State University. He joined the faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas in 1990 in Austin, Texas. He is presently the Fred M. Bullard Professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences and Director of the Environmental Science Institute at UT-Austin.
Dr. Banner is a geochemist who investigates the impacts of urbanization on aquifers and streams, and the reconstruction of past climate change, soil erosion and ocean chemistry. His field research sites include Texas, Guam, Western Australia, the midcontinent and Great Basin USA, Barbados, and the Bahamas. Banner co-developed and teaches UT-Austin’s first Signature Course, Sustaining a Planet, and helped develop the university’s newest interdisciplinary degree, a B.S. in Environmental Science.
Dr. Banner is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and was the first person certified as an Environmental Scientist by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Among the recent honors he has received are the UT Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (2013), the Texas Exes Teaching Award (2012), the Friar’s Centennial Teaching Fellowship Award (2011), induction into UT-Austin’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2011), and the Jackson School of Geosciences Out- standing Educator Award (2010).
Address:Austin, Texas, United States
Agenda
2:00 PM Networking and lunch
2:15 PM Presentation
The Austin Life Members Group meets monthly. Except when meeting jointly with other groups, the Life Members meet on the third Tuesday each month. Meetings usually begin with informal networking from 2:00 to 2:15 p.m., followed by presentations from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. by experts in topics of interest to IEEE Life Members.