Pardee Faculty Fellow to Speak on Climate Change at UMass Lowell

UnknownFrederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future Faculty Research Fellow in Residence Bruce Anderson will be a speaker at the “Taking the High Ground: Real Actions to Address Global Climate Change” talk at UMass Lowell on Tuesday, October 7.

The talk will feature experts on climate change and policy and what they think about our choices today and our world tomorrow. Speakers include Prof. Anderson; Prof. John Sterman, MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT’s Systems Dynamics Group; and Joseph Curtatone, six-term Mayor of Somerville, Mass.

The event will be held in Cumnock Hall, North Campus, at UMass Lowell from 4-6p.m. Registration is required.

The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) at UMass Lowell is organizing the event. CCI addresses climate change through education, research, and developing solutions to transition to a more sustainable and resilient society.

Prof. Anderson is a scientist researching global and regional climate variability and change. Prof. Sterman is a leading expert in system dynamics of climate change and sustainability, systems thinking and organizational learning, and computer simulation of complex systems. Mayor Curtanone’s reforms have earned the city distinctions by regional and national organizations, including the designation by the Boston Globe as “the best-run city in Massachusetts.”