Agenda – Climate Symposium

Rutgers Climate Symposium 2024

Signals – Climate Change Communication for Understanding and Action

Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ

November 13, 2024

AGENDA

8:15 AM	Check-In (1^st Floor Lobby) Poster Session Set-up (Douglass Lounge, 2^nd Floor) Light Breakfast (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor)

9:00 AM	Welcome and Plenary I (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) Welcome Denise Hien, Senior Vice Provost for Research Fingerprinting the Climate System Benjamin Santer, Atmospheric Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution & University of California at Los Angeles

10:00 AM	Plenary II (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) California Burning: When Climate Change Came for PG&E Katherine Blunt, Author and Journalist

10:30 AM	Break

10:45 AM	Plenary III (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) Lo-TEK, Infrastructures of an Ancestral Future Julia Watson, Landscape Designer, Julia Watson LLC & Lo-TEK Institute

11:15 AM	Plenary IV (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) Communicating about Climate Change: Targeting Understanding, Emotions, and Actions William Hallman, Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

11:45 AM	Plenary Speakers Panel (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor)

12:30 PM	Lunch (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor)

1:30 PM	Poster Session (Douglass Lounge and NJC Lounge, 2^nd Floor)

3:00 PM	Adjourn

Rutgers Climate Symposium is made possible through the generous support of the

Frank Sposato Memorial Endowment