Solar Radiation Management Science 2015 - University of Cambridge

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Friday 13 March (Engineering department) 8.oo Registration, coffee 9.00 Welcome & Introduction 9.30 Keynote Lecture: Ken Caldeira 10.00 Keynote Lecture: Phil Rasch 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Technical Session 1: Climate Modelling. Chair: Lesley Gray Jim Haywood 'Results from GEOMIP and SRM simulations with the Hadley Centre Model' Scott Osprey 'The long-standing dynamical impacts of climate engineering using stratospheric sulphate aerosol' Andy Jarvis 'Deeply ignorant rationality: A solar radiation management case study' Stephen Salter 'Can we get a win-win result for the side effects of marine cloud brightening by use of coded modulation of condensation nucleus concentration?' 12.30 Lunch & Lunchtime Perspectives. Chair: Olaf Corry Ian Simpson 'Evidence and theory of current climate engineering programs' Josefina Fraile-Martin 'Civil Society and Geoengineering' 14.00 Keynote Lecture: David MacKay 14.30 Keynote Lecture: Lynn Russell 15.00 Coffee 15.30 Technical Session 2: Impacts, Implications & Consequences. Chair: Nem Vaughan Piers Forster 'Potentially damaging precipitation side effects from solar radiation management' Ben Kravitz 'SRM Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle' Andy Wiltshire 'Future Ecosystem Services, Climate Mitigation and Geo-Engineering' Sebastian Eastham 'Sensitivities of Human Health to Aerosol Climate Engineering' 17.00 End 19.00 - 21.00 Panel discussion, Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site. Chair: Oliver Morton. Panellists: Martin Rees, Amartya Sen, Onora O'Neill, David Keith. Saturday 14 March (Engineering department) 9.00 Coffee 9.30 Keynote Lecture: David Keith 10.00 Keynote Lecture: Duncan McLaren 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Session 3: Engineering Systems. Chair: Hugh Hunt Hugh Hunt 'Delivering particles to the stratosphere - SPICE WP2' Chris Burgoyne 'Some engineering aspects of a Geoengineering balloon and tether' Julian Evans 'The quest for ingenerate resources to promote longevity of the ocean mirror' John Latham 'Marine Cloud Brightening' 12.30 Lunch & Lunchtime Perspectives. Chair: Duncan McLaren Holly Buck 'Contested infrastructure: insights from large-scale development projects' Bronislaw Szerszynski 'A bibliometric study of solar radiation management science: publications and patents' 14.00 Keynote Lecture: Tom Ackerman 14.30 Keynote Lecture: Matthew Watson 15.00 Coffee 15.30 Session 4: Atmospheric Effects. Chair: Matthew Watson Markus Kalberer 'Atmospheric chemistry of mineral particles in the stratosphere: implications for ozone chemistry and stratospheric particle injection' Graham Mann 'Quantifying the radiative forcing from the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption' Peter Davidson 'The impact, implications and consequences of the use of manufactured particles to improve the feasibility and reduce risk for a Stratospheric Solar Radiation Management (SRM) Insurance' Peter Irvine 'Detection, Attribution and Climate Control - the Limits to Solar Radiation Management' 17.00 End