Professor Michael Raupach FAA FTSE is the Director of the Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra. This position follows a career of many years with CSIRO. His scientific foci include Earth System science, carbon-climate-human interactions, land-air interactions, and fluid mechanics. From 2000 to 2008 he was an inaugural co-chair of the Global Carbon Project, an international project studying the natural and human influences on the global carbon cycle. In recent years he has co-chaired the working group drafting the Australian Academy of Science booklet The science of climate change: questions and answers; led the report 'Challenges at energy-water-carbon Intersections' for The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council; and led the Australian Academy of Science project Negotiating our future:living scenarios for Australia to 2050. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the American Geophysical Union.
Through growth in the scale and reach of its activities, humankind is now profoundly influencing the environment of the Earth - its climate, land, waters and ecosystems. Australian science has made critical past contributions to observing and understanding these processes, at both Australian and global scales. Examples include water resources, soils and ecosystems; the flows of water and carbon through plants and landscapes; carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere; and the role of the Southern Ocean in the global deep ocean circulation.
The emerging environmental understandings of the present and the future are fundamentally trans-disciplinary, embracing both natural and human sciences. These emerging understandings are essential both to comprehend the rapidly changing relationship between nature and human societies, and also to develop the tools we need to care for and adapt to a changing natural world. By pointing to objective realities about the way the Earth works, new environmental understandings are changing the ways that people think, and thus contributing to the evolution of new societal ethics for guiding the cohabitation of human societies and a natural world that is no longer invulnerable. That is why the environmental sciences are important parts of our culture and polity.
Event Manager: Mitchell Piercey
Phone: (02) 6201 9462
Professor Michael Raupach FAA FTSE is the Director of the Climate Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra. This position follows a career of many years with CSIRO. His scientific foci include Earth System science, carbon-climate-human interactions, land-air interactions, and fluid mechanics. From 2000 to 2008 he was an inaugural co-chair of the Global Carbon Project, an international project studying the natural and human influences on the global carbon cycle. In recent years he has co-chaired the working group drafting the Australian Academy of Science booklet The science of climate change: questions and answers; led the report 'Challenges at energy-water-carbon Intersections' for The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council; and led the Australian Academy of Science project Negotiating our future:living scenarios for Australia to 2050. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the American Geophysical Union.
Through growth in the scale and reach of its activities, humankind is now profoundly influencing the environment of the Earth - its climate, land, waters and ecosystems. Australian science has made critical past contributions to observing and understanding these processes, at both Australian and global scales. Examples include water resources, soils and ecosystems; the flows of water and carbon through plants and landscapes; carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere; and the role of the Southern Ocean in the global deep ocean circulation.
The emerging environmental understandings of the present and the future are fundamentally trans-disciplinary, embracing both natural and human sciences. These emerging understandings are essential both to comprehend the rapidly changing relationship between nature and human societies, and also to develop the tools we need to care for and adapt to a changing natural world. By pointing to objective realities about the way the Earth works, new environmental understandings are changing the ways that people think, and thus contributing to the evolution of new societal ethics for guiding the cohabitation of human societies and a natural world that is no longer invulnerable. That is why the environmental sciences are important parts of our culture and polity.
Event Manager: Mitchell Piercey
Phone: (02) 6201 9462
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