Solar Climate Intervention Virtual Symposia

Symposium #14 will be on November 15th at 4pm UTC and the speakers will be: 

• Dr. Lili Xia (Rutgers University, USA) : "Agriculture responses to Solar Radiation Modification: Connecting Broader Impact Studies"

• Dr. Pat Keys (Colorado State University, USA) : "Designing Scenarios for Exploring Unilateral Climate Intervention"

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If you have any questions or would like to give a talk at a future symposium, email Simone Tilmes (tilmes@ucar.edu) or Matthew Henry (m.henry@exeter.ac.uk). 

Symposium #13 (October 11th 2024):

• Prof. Govindasamy Bala (Indian Institute of Science, India) : "Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering and Tropical Monsoon Rainfall"

• Dr. Kelsey Roberts (Louisiana State University, USA) : "Towards Estimating Marine Ecosystem Impacts of Climate Intervention"

Symposium #12 (September 13th 2024):

• Dr. Ye Tao (Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing) : "From Geo-Experiments to Geoengineering—the Journey Ahead for Energy Rebalancing at the Earth's Surface."

• Linus Boselius (University College London, UK) : "Peak Shaving with Solar Radiation Management Would Shorten Global Temperature Overshoot" (Preprint)

Symposium #11 (June 14th 2024):

• Dr. Claudia Wieners (Utrecht University, Netherlands) : "Burning fossils like hell and cooling in 2080 – what could possibly go wrong? (Semi)-irreversible climate change under delayed stratospheric aerosol injection."

• Dr. Daniele Visioni (Cornell University, USA) : "Assessing sunlight reflection methods on the international stage: what does it mean and where are we? A perspective between science and politics."

Symposium #10 (April 12th 2024):

• Dr. Ilaria Quaglia (Cornell University, USA): "The potential of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection to reduce the climatic risks of explosive volcanic eruptions."

• Dr. Wake Smith (Yale University, USA): "Frosted Tips: An Alternative Rationale for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection."

Symposium #9 (March 15th 2024):

• Daniel Hueholt (Colorado State University, USA): "Climate speeds help frame relative ecological risk in future climate change and stratospheric aerosol injection scenarios." (Preprint)

• Prof. David Keith (University of Chicago, USA): "Solar geoengineering could start soon if it is small." (Article)

Symposium #8 (February 9th 2024)

• Dr. Sandro Vattioni (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): "Chemical and climatic impacts of solid particles for stratospheric solar climate intervention."

• Jessica Wan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA): "Diminished efficacy of regional marine cloud brightening in a warmer world".

Symposium #7 (November 10th 2023)

• Chen Xing (University of California Santa Barbara): "Why does Marine Cloud Brightening dampen El Niño–Southern Oscillation?"

• Dr. David Mitchell (Desert Research Institute, USA) : "Clearing Logjams in CCT Research"

Symposium #6 (September 22nd 2023)

• Dr Leslie Fields (Bright Ice Initiative) :  Preserving glacial ice with surface albedo modification.

• Dr Hongwei Sun (Harvard University, USA) : A Lagrangian Method Shows that Optimizing Injection Locations can Relax Altitude‐Lifetime Trade‐Off for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection. (Related paper.)

Symposium #5 (June 16th 2023)

• Prof Abolfazl Rezaei (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Iran) : Changes in Ocean-Atmosphere Circulations in Response to Global Warming and Stratosphere Aerosol Intervention.

• Brendan Clark (Rutgers, USA) : The Optimal Climate Intervention Scenario for Crop Production Varies by Nation.

Symposium #4 (May 19th 2023)

• Dr Temitope Egbebiyi (University of Cape Town, South Africa) : Impact of Solar Aerosol Geoengineering on crop suitability in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Walker Lee (Cornell University, USA) : Impacts of climate intervention: comparing stratospheric aerosol injection and marine cloud brightening.

Symposium #3 (April 21st 2023)

• Dr Ewa Bednarz (NOAA, USA): Injection strategy - a driver of atmospheric circulation and ozone response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering.

• Dr Colleen Golja (Harvard University, USA) : Stratospheric Heating: Investigations into the indirect effects of stratospheric aerosol injection.

Symposium #2  (March 17th 2023)

• Susanne Baur (CERFACS, Toulouse, France) : The Deployment Length of Solar Radiation Modification: An Interplay of Mitigation, Net-negative Emissions, and Climate Uncertainty.

• Dr. Haruki Hirasawa (University of Victoria, Canada) : Accelerating exploration of Marine Cloud Brightening climate impacts using an AI implementation of the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem. 

Symposium #1  (February 17th 2023)

• Alice Wells (University of Exeter): Identifying Climate Impacts from Different Injection Strategies in UKESM1.

• Dr. Elizabeth Barnes (Colorado State University): Detecting a Stratospheric Aerosol Injection World with Explainable AI.