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Taking Action: How the Space Industry is Adapting and Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change; Part 2 of a 3-Part Series

Originally aired on: January 26, 2022

“You don’t know what you are missing until it is gone” holds true regarding climate change.  A response to this global crisis is critical to our future survival.  Action is being taken to lessen the effects of rising temperatures and global shifts on the environment.  Join us for the second installment in our Climate Change series and listen to experts share how their companies and governmental agencies are responding to this vital situation.

Speakers

Dr. Robert W. Corell is a Principal and Director of the Global Environment Technology Foundation and Leads the GETF’s Center for Global Science and Innovation (US). He is the Co-Founder and Director of the The Rising Seas Institute (US) and is a Board of Trustees Member, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (Bermuda). He has several academic appointments, including an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Miami’s Department of Ocean Sciences and Professorship at the University of the Arctic and its Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry (Norway). He recently held the Arctic Chair at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He was a Council Member of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) and Lead Author of GEA’s Chapter 3 on Environment and Energy. He led the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2005). In 2021 he was awarded the 2021 U.S. Water Leader Award by the U.S, Water Partnership. In 2019, he received the High North Hero Award by the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University (Norway). In 2018, he gave the Maniac Space Lecture at NASA, titled: Science Goes Global (https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/maniac/corell). In 2013, chaired and was the lead author of the 2013 UNEP Yearbook on “The View from the Top Searching for Responses to a Rapidly Changing Arctic” and more recently, was the Co-Chair of the 2016 UNEP’s GEO-6 North American Regional Assessment. He was recognized with the other scientists for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments. In 2010, Dr. Corell was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine by the Norges Veterinærhøgskole (Norwegian School of Veterinarian Science) and a 2008 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Alaska, Anchorage. In 2017, Case Western Reserve University Case Alumni Association awarded him the Gold Medal Award for lifetime achievements. A circular mountain region Antarctica was named the “Corell Cirque” by Board on Geographical Names (79°54′00″S, 155°57′00″E).

Dr. Robert Corell

Ryan lead’s McKinsey’s work in advanced analytics across food, agriculture, and environmental sectors. He heads McKinsey’s ACRE data science center, which provides remote sensing analysis, crop yield forecasting, weather/climate modeling, and related analytics. He has worked extensively with private sector and governmental clients on using analytics to understand climate risk in their operations, and how to address GHG emissions in the agriculture sector.

Ryan McCullough

Ryan is Payload's managing editor and host of the Pathfinder podcast. Previously, Ryan was an early employee at Morning Brew, where he started the company's second product and helped scale it to 300,000+ subscribers. Ryan's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fast Company, Texas Tribune, and the Verge, among other publications. 

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