Panel: What Remote Sensing Can Tell us About Climate Change Now and In the Future

An open discussion in the new Aerospace Building with research leaders from across the university about the modern tools that are helping us understand and combat climate change. Panelists will discuss their work in the field through real world applications of the current technology and consider how the students on campus today address this issue in the future.

 Key Details

• 4–6 p.m. Poster session and tours of the new Aerospace Building
  • Aerospace Building tours are led by aerospace ambassadors and last about 30 minutes. Tours depart from the main lobby at 4, 4:30, 5 and 5:30 p.m. 
• 6–7 p.m. Panel discussion
  • Panelists include:
    • James White, College of Arts and Sciences interim dean
    • Waleed Abdalati, College of Arts and Sciences Professor and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences director
    • Scott Palo, College of Engineering and Applied Science Professor 
    • Evan Thomas, College of Engineering and Applied Science Associate Professor and Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering
    • Cora Randall, professor and chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and faculty member in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics