“Ice and the Sky” is a 2015 French documentary about the pioneering climate scientist Claude Lorius, who began studying Antarctic ice in the 1950s and was one of the first scientists to become concerned about global warming. Co-sponsors the Baker Institute Science & Technology Policy Program and the Consulate General of France in Houston hosted a film screening and following Q&A session.
The reception was co-sponsored by Rice University's Shell Center for Sustainability, Earth Science Department and Environmental Society.
Introduction
Jérôme Chappellaz, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environment, Grenoble, France
Question-and-Answer Session
John Anderson, Ph.D.
Maurice Ewing Professor of Oceanography, Earth Science Department, and Academic Director, Shell Center for Sustainability, Rice University
Jérôme Chappellaz, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environment, Grenoble, France
Neal Lane, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute; Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University
The event is chaired by André Droxler, Ph.D., professor of earth science at Rice University and Rice Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute.
Robin Faideau, deputy scientific attaché at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States, will represent the Consulate General of France in Houston.
Agenda
6:30 pm – Reception
7:00 pm – Film introduction
7:15 – Film presentation
8:45 – Question-and-Answer session
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