| 听will be at 杏吧原创 University on听Thursday, September 27th.
Paul will be delivering a lunch time talk on climate change, farming, and science and risk communication, titled:听How climate change may (or may not) impact behavior of farmers Time:听noon to 1:30pm, Thursday, September 27th Location:听Richcraft Hall, 4400 (Reader鈥檚 Digest Resource Centre) Space is Limited – RSVP听here A workshop for graduate students,听Doing it differently: life after graduation, will follow Paul鈥檚 talk Time:听2-3pm, Thursday, September 27th RSVP听here Paul听 received his PhD in plant physiology from Cambridge University.听 After 2 postdocs (the second being at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa) he had the opportunity to start a research group in plant molecular biology at a Max Planck Institute in Germany. For the next 15 years researched听 how stress can influence cell division and differentiation听 in plants.听 Because of his growing听 interest in science and risk communication, he then changed fields completely to start a new career as a social scientist at the Institute of Communication and Media Research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His is currently coordinating a project听 looking at how climate change impacts the behavior of farming communities in Tunisia and Chile. That is also the topic of his lunch talk. More details to follow. In the meantime, please contact听irena.knezevic@carleton.ca听with any questions. |
