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Climate change exhibition and lecture

When: Tuesday, 02 February 2016 - Tuesday, 02 February 2016
Where: Braamfontein Campus East
Origins Centre
Start time:18:00
Enquiries:

011 717 4700 or ask.origins@wits.ac.za
RSVP:

Booking: bookings.origins@wits.ac.za
Cost: R60 adults/ R48 Wits staff/R30 students

The exhibition ‘Climate Change’ is currently on show at the Origins Centre.

The exhibition explores questions raised in a new book, titled: Climate Change: Briefings from Southern Africa, written by world leading experts on climate change from Wits University – Bob Scholes, Mary Scholes and Mike Lucas – that was published by Wits University Press in December 2015.

The exhibition will take place in the Origins Centre temporary gallery and offers a highly interactive family friendly experience.

A public lecture will take place on 2 February 2016.

Speakers:

  • Professor Bob Scholes is a Wits Distinguished Professor in the Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute (GCRSI), School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES). 
  • Professor Mary Scholes, a leading Wits academic, is a full professor in APES. Her research activities focus on soil fertility and biogeochemistry in savannas, plantation forests and croplands. 
  • UCT Associate Professor Mike Lucas’s research focus is in areas of biological oceanography, biogeochemical cycling; Benguela upwelling and Southern Ocean ecosystems.

 

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