Indeed, it has helped drive new levels of international coordination and interdisciplinary cooperation in pursuit of fundamental knowledge that will serve as the basis for assessing likely future. Increasing anthropogenic nitrogen inputs and riverine din exports from the. A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead igbp. A sustainable planet needs scientists to think ahead nature. Director sybil seitzinger in an interview in reuters alertnet.
Sybil seitzinger is the executive director of the bc wide. Seitzinger holds a phd in biological oceanography from the university of rhode island and is an elected member of the american academy of arts and sciences. Igbp climatechange index global carbon dioxide arctic seaice minimum global surface temperature. Her work at the igbp involved facilitating and integrating the work of scientists and researchers across africa, the americas, asiapacific and europe on global environmental change. Planetary and societal risks why we need planetary stewardship professor sybil seitzinger executive director international geosphere biosphere programme 4. Sybil seitzinger director, pacific institute for climate solutions. Redfield lifetime achievement award in recognition of her critical research on 2020 a. The international geospherebiosphere programmes igbp scientific and institutional. Globalization means that earths lifesupport system can no longer be treated as separate from the socioeconomic system, says sybil seitzinger. Planetary and societal risks why we need planetary stewardship professor sybil seitzinger executive director international geospherebiosphere programme 4. These constituted an igbp book series and while many. Sybil seitzinger pics pacific institute for climate solutions uvic. Director of the international geospherebiosphere programme igbp in stockholm, she.
Redfield lifetime achievement award recipient aslo. Sybil putnam seitzinger pacific institute for climate solutions university victoria po box 1700 stn csc victoria, bc v8w 2y2, canada phone. Sybil seitzinger is the executive director of the pacific institute for climate solutions and a professor in the school of environmental studies. International geospherebiosphere programme and earth. The igbp secretariat staff coordinated the central activities of the programme, under the leadership of an executive director.
Igbp executive director sybil seitzinger presented the latest findings from the four global environmental change programmes at the meeting. The secretariat implemented the decisions of the scientific committee of the igbp, worked with the core projects to provide support to the overall research effort, raised funds for igbp activities, communicated igbp s research to a wide variety of audiences, liaised. February 2019 professional experience executive director, pacific institute for climate solutions, university victoria, canada 2015present. Sybil seitzinger university of victoria, victoria uvic pacific. Throughout the past three decades there has been a steadily increasing focus on explicitly incorporating the human. Select books and articles available at ubc library. Sybil seitzinger of university of victoria, victoria uvic read 197. Seitzinger joined pics in november 2015 from her position of executive director of the international geospherebiosphere programme igbp based in stockholm. The subsequent evolution and development of satellites for earth observation has been intricately linked with that of igbp and other globalchange research programmes, write. Rutgers and noaa cmer program, institute of marine and coastal sciences, rutgers university, new brunswick, new jersey, usa. Redfield lifetime achievement award honors major, longterm achievements in the fields of limnology and oceanography, including research, education, and service to the community and society. Within igbp, earthsystem science has evolved from the development of some of the first global databases to studies primarily of individual components of the earth system to more integrated earthsystem analysis. Executive director sybil seitzinger both spoke at the symposium. The process is a result of several roundtable meetings organised by unep and involved many experts, including igbp s executive director sybil seitzinger.
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