Extreme Weather Events & A Changing Environment (virtual)
Overview
Join Lifetime Learning and UVA’s Environmental Institute for a thought-provoking discussion on the seeming rise of extreme weather events and a planet living with harsh new environmental challenges. A panel of UVA experts, moderated by the Environmental Institute’s Director, Karen McGlathery, will tackle the scientific causes of some of the latest weather-related crises, the impacts on communities, and potential solutions.
Speaker Biographies
Karen McGlathery, Sherrell J. Aston Chaired Professor in Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Director, Environmental Institute, and Lead, Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Program, University of Virginia (Moderator)
Karen McGlathery is the Sherrell J. Aston Chaired Professor in Environmental Sciences and Director of the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. She is an expert in coastal resilience and climate change and has led large interdisciplinary research teams for over twenty years with a focus on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. McGlathery serves as a member of numerous boards, including the Governor’s Coastal Resilience Technical Advisory Committee and the advisory council for Virginia Sea Grants. In 2019, she was elected to the College of Arts & Science’s Society of Fellows.
Elizabeth Andrews, Environmental Sustainability and Resilience Practitioner Fellow, Environmental Institute, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Andrews is the inaugural Practitioner Fellow at the University of Virginia Environmental Institute. Most recently, she was Director of William & Mary Law School’s Virginia Coastal Policy Center. She formerly served as Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Environmental Section of the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, where she oversaw a team of attorneys representing and providing counsel to the Secretary of Natural Resources and the natural resources agencies of the Commonwealth. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
Jonathan Colmer, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia and Co-Founder and Director, Environmental Inequality Lab
Jonathan Colmer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia and the Co-Founder and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He is an environmental economist, and his research combines data with economic theory and environmental science insights to better understand how economic activity and the environment influence one another.
Kathleen Schiro, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia
Kathleen Schiro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Schiro’s lab uses cloud-resolving models, global earth systems models, and observational data from field campaigns and satellite remote sensing to improve our understanding of changes to precipitation extremes in a warming world.
This program is presented by UVA Lifetime Learning in partnership with UVA Environmental Institute.
