Agenda - Climate Symposium

Rutgers Climate Symposium 2026

Sowing Change: Rethinking Farming in a Climate and Energy Transition

Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick, NJ

November 18, 2026

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* Julie Lockwood, Director, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute Laura Lawson, Executive Dean, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences \| Executive Director, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Climate Change and Agriculture: Global, National, and Local Research Happening NOW Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University Climate School’s Center for Climate Systems Research

10:00 AM	Plenary II (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) Agrivoltaics: Land-Use Synergy Research Dunbar Birnie, Professor & Corning/Saint Gobain/Malcolm G. McLaren Chair, Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

10:30 AM	Break

10:45 AM	Plenary III (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) The Social Dimensions of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Planning Rachel Schattman, Associate Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Maine

11:15 AM	Plenary IV (Trayes Hall, 1^st Floor) Cultivating Resilience in Farmers and Ranchers by Addressing Climate Stress and Grief Mary Halbleib, Professor of Practice, Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University

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

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