This event has been CANCELLED due to winter storm Nemo!!!

Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World

February 8, 2013

Time: 12pm-1pm

Location: Room L-210

BU Medical School Instructional Building

Speaker

Ethan Butler

PH.D. Candidate

Department of Earth and Planetary Science

Harvard University

This seminar will address the challenge that global warming adds to feeding a growing and more affluent population in the 21st century.Warmer temperatures are expected to decrease yields across most of the globe, but most analyses have been done without quantitatively assessing the capacity for adaptation to reduce yield losses from warming.To begin to address the challenge of feeding humanity in the coming century Mr. Butler will conclude with work on the potential for adaptation to reduce damage to US maize from modest warming.