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The Water Institute is pleased to announce the next seminar in the 2007-2008 Smallwood Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series Speaker: Edward L. Miles, Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor of Marine & Public Affairs, and Senior Fellow Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington <http://www.sma.washington.edu/faculty/e_miles.html> Seminar Title: From the Global to the Local: Managing Climate Change Impacts across Scales Time: 3:00 pm Thursday October 18, 2007 Location: Room 282 Reitz Union ABSTRACT Human responses to the fact of human-caused climate change fall along two dimensions: mitigation of changes induced by greenhouse gases and adaptation to the changes and their impacts to which we are already committed. This presentation will deal solely with the adaptation problem because we must learn how to manage changing rates of change, particularly those that occur on seasonal-interannual to decadal time scales. Impacts also differ on spatial scales, which add to the management challenges. Since place is important as well as time I shall focus on the Pacific Northwest (PNW), set in a context of the American West, using regional hydrology and the water resources sector as my major domain of explanation. This choice reflects the fact that water is perhaps the most powerful trans-sectoral regulator of climate impacts. Analytically, the explanation will be developed in terms of the dynamics of social-ecological systems as panarchies originally developed by Holling (1973), and elaborated more recently by others. Dr. Miles' Itinerary Thursday October 18th, 2007 10am Meeting with the Interdisciplinary Water Working Group and other interested faculty and students, 122 Rogers Hall 1pm Meeting with Faculty Advisory Committee 122 Rogers Hall 3pm Seminar 282 Reitz Union Friday October 19th, 2007 9:30 am Meeting with the South East Climate Consortium and other interested faculty and students, 122 Rogers Hall Please pass this information on to potentially interested students and colleagues! Wendy Graham Carl S. Swisher Chair in Water Resources Director UF Water Institute PO Box 116601 University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611-6601 Phone 352-392-5893 x 2113 Email [log in to unmask] www.waterinstitute.ufl.edu