Sea Level Rise: Causes, Impacts and Options for Solutions – Perspectives from science and the stakeholder community

Program participants will include:

Robin E. Bell, Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

James L. Davis, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

George Deodatis, Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University

Michael T. Eckhart, Managing Director and Global Head, Environmental Finance and Sustainability, Citigroup New York City

Peter Schlosser, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Associate Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Gavin Schmidt, Climatologist, climate modeler and Director, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Co-founder, award winning climate science blog RealClimate