IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society: Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change & The Ocean
Join us online or at UBC Vancouver on March 24th for a presentation by Ralph Rayner, an IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer, on Climate Change and the Ocean.
The ocean annually absorbs about 27% of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels and takes up much of the excess heat that is trapped in the atmosphere by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. This moderation of the terrestrial impact of climate change comes at growing cost to life in the ocean and to the crucial ecosystem services it provides. At the same time, the ocean offers important opportunities for enhanced sequestration and storage of carbon from the atmosphere.
This presentation will introduce the role of the ocean in climate. It will then explore some of the technologies that might be employed to make better use of the capacity of the ocean for sequestering and storing carbon from the atmosphere as a contribution to the delivery of net zero and beyond.
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- Date: 24 Mar 2025
- Time: 09:00 PM UTC to 10:15 PM UTC
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- 2356 Main Mall
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Canada V6T 1Z4
- Building: MacLeod Building
- Room Number: 3038
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- Starts 03 March 2025 08:00 AM UTC
- Ends 24 March 2025 08:30 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Ralph Rayner
Climate Change and the Ocean
Biography:
Ralph Rayner is a professorial research fellow at the London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute on Climate and the Environment. In addition, he serves as Industry Liaison at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Integrated Ocean Observing System Program Office.
Ralph has over forty years of experience in commercial ocean science and technology having held leadership positions in a number of ocean science and technology businesses around the world.
Ralph plays an active part in a number of learned societies and professional bodies concerned with ocean science and technology and is a fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST), the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), the Marine Technology Society (MTS), the Royal Meteorological Society, the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Oceanic Engineering Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Royal Institution.
He is a past President of the Society for Underwater Technology and is co-chair of the IMarEST Operational Oceanography Special Interest Group. He serves as Editor in Chief for the Journal of Operational Oceanography and is a member of the editorial boards of International Ocean Systems and the journal of Underwater Technology.