Agenda
Rutgers Climate Symposium 2025
The Blue Planet
Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ
November 12, 2025
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 Climate and the Deep Blue Sea: Improving Prediction
Joellen Rusell, Distinguished Professor, and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair of Integrative Science in the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona |
| 10:00 AM | Plenary II (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
History As a Tool for Addressing Climate Change
Helen Rozwadowski, Professor of History and founder of the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | Plenary III (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
Powering and Cooling Data Centers Using Ocean Renewable Energy
Jason Cottrell, Founder and CEO, Sperra |
| 11:15 AM | Plenary IV (Trayes Hall, 1st Floor)
International Court Climate Change Opinions, Ocean Treaties: What’s Science Got to Do with It?
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.