Climate Change and the Coast: What Are We in For?
with Dr. Donald F. Boesch
President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
D
onald F. Boesch is a professor at and president
of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science. He also serves as vice
chancellor for environmental sustainability for
the University System of Maryland. Boesch is a
biological oceanographer who has conducted
research on coastal
and continental
shelf ecosystems
in the Chesapeake
Bay and along the
Atlantic Coast, the
Gulf of Mexico,
eastern Australia and
the East China Sea.
He has published
two books and 90
papers on marine
benthos, estuarine
and continental shelf ecology, wetlands,
oil pollution, nutrient over-enrichment,
environmental assessment and science policy.
the University of Queensland, a faculty member
at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and
the first executive director of the Louisiana
Universities Marine Consortium and professor of
marine science at Louisiana State University.
B
oesch is active in extending knowledge to
environmental and resource management
at regional, national and international levels.
Presently, his research focuses on the use
of science in ecosystem-based management
and on assessments and adaptation strategies
related to climate change. Boesch has served on
several standing boards and study committees
of the National Research Council of the National
Academy of Sciences and on numerous federal
agency and regional advisory boards. He served
as a science advisor to both the Pew Oceans
Commission and the U.S. Commission on Ocean
Policy and is currently on a federal advisory
committee preparing an assessment of impacts
of global warming on the United States.
B
oesch earned his B.S. from Tulane University
and Ph.D. from the College of William and
Mary. He was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at
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Climate Change and the Coast:
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What Are We in For?
with Dr. Donald F. Boesch
September 9, 2008
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Seminar 6:30 p.m. / Reception 7:30 p.m.
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