William Anderegg, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and a member of the leadership team of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah, will discuss how climate change affects forest ecosystems, including tree physiology, carbon cycling, biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks, and nature-based climate solutions. His research spans a broad array of scales and seeks to gain a better mechanistic understanding of how climate change will affect forests around the world to provide tools to guide and inform management, conservation, and climate policy.
Professor Anderegg is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and has been named a Blavatnik Foundation National Laureate in Life Sciences, a Web of Science Global Highly Cited Researcher, and a Packard Foundation Fellow for Science and Engineering.
Notre Dame Seminars on Sustainability Series is a signature lecture series organized by the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative that brings global sustainability leaders and world-class scholars to campus for knowledge sharing and engagement with the Notre Dame community.
About Just Transformations to Sustainability
As sustainability challenges intensify, their cascading effects on food, energy, water, and infrastructure increasingly threaten the well-being and dignity of people worldwide. Notre Dame’s Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative is the University’s far-reaching response to these urgent threats. Inspired by Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical Laudato si’ (On Care for Our Common Home), the Initiative brings together interdisciplinary scholars, dedicated students, and action partners from around the world to advance transformative solutions for a more just and sustainable future.
Originally published at strategicframework.nd.edu.