Seminar: Weston Anderson "Climate Science for Sustainable Food Systems"

Join us at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 in River Room 325 for the seminar "Climate Science for Sustainable Food Systems" with Assistant Research Professor Weston Anderson.

Assistant Research Professor Weston Anderson is a climate scientist studying the dynamics of climate variability and change, vegetation–land–atmosphere interactions and agriculture. He conducts interdisciplinary research using remote sensing, model simulations, and statistical records.

In this presentation, Anderson will address how we can use climate science to help develop sustainable, climate-resilient food systems. Human and natural systems are threatened by climate extremes that are being made more frequent by climate change. Natural systems increasingly face the additional threat of unsustainable agricultural extensification. But our ability to understand these pressures remains limited by poor data availability and uncertainties relating to climate system interactions. 

By combining observations with simplified climate model simulations, he demonstrates that we can both understand and predict risks to global agriculture from climate extremes and climate change. He concludes by discussing why developing a database relating to food systems is necessary to bring together the scientific community and enable research relating to climate impacts.

For the Zoom link, please visit the GEOG Department Calendar.