Agenda
Rutgers Climate Symposium 2025
The Blue Planet
Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ
November 12, 2025
DRAFT AGENDA
| 8:15 AM | Check-In (1st Floor Lobby) Poster Session Set-up (Douglass Lounge, 2nd Floor) Light Breakfast (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor) |
| 9:00 AM | Welcome and Plenary I (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
Welcome
Jason Geary, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Helen Rozwadowski, Professor of History and founder of the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point |
| 10:00 AM | Plenary II (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
Joellen Rusell, Distinguished Professor, and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair of Integrative Science in the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | Plenary III (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
Jason Cottrell, Founder and CEO, Sperra |
| 11:15 AM | Plenary IV (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
Cymie Payne, Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and at Rutgers Law School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| 11:45 AM | Plenary Speakers Panel (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor) |
| 1:30 PM | Poster Session (Douglass Lounge and NJC Lounge, 2nd Floor) |
| 3:00 PM | Adjourn |
Rutgers Climate Symposium is made possible through the generous support of the
Frank Sposato Memorial Endowment.
Learn how to become a sponsor at go.rutgers.edu/sponsor-climate-symposium.