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Climate scientist Dr. Benjamin Santer to speak
"Climate Fingerprints: How do we know human activities have influenced global climate change?" Climate scientist Benjamin Santer Benjamin Santer has been a key contributor to the Scientific Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. His early research on the climatic effects of changes in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols contributed to the historic “discernible human influence” conclusion of the 1995 Report by the IPCC. “Ben Santer made seminal contributions to the Nobel Prize-winning work of the IPCC,” said Susan Solomon, Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group. “In particular, he was the key scientific leader in the pioneering statement of the second assessment report that there was a discernible human influence on climate. Since then, he has continued to contribute remarkable scientific work to the field and to IPCC.” Dr. Santer is an atmospheric scientist with the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research focuses on identification of natural and anthropogenic “fingerprints” in observed climate records, the use of statistical methods in climate science, and climate model evaluation. He holds a Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of East Anglia, England. Awards for his work in climate-change detection include a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence Award, the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Bio Summary | Full Bio
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Dr. Benjamin Santer, one of the world’s leading scientists in the identification of human-caused climate change, will be delivering this year's Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy, Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Media Theater at UCSC.Dr. Santer has been a key contributor to all four Scientific Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Dr. Santer will be speaking on the topic: 
This UCSC lecture series is named in honor of Fred Keeley, a civic leader and former member of the State Assembly, who for many years has contributed to shaping environmental policy in California.