Thursday, September 15, Morning Session

All presentations and discussions will be in the Joukowsky Forum, located on the first floor of The Watson Institute.

Welcome and Opening

9:00 - 9:05	Thomas Biersteker Director, Watson Institute, Brown University	Welcome
9:05 - 9:10	Osvaldo Sala Director, Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University	ECI background
9:10 - 9:15	Brian O'Neill Global Environment Program, Watson Institute, Brown University	Global Environment background, conference goals

Chair: Osvaldo Sala, Brown University

9:15 - 9:45	Hugh Pitcher DOE/PNNL, Joint Global Change Research Institute	The Development and Use of Long-Term Emissions Scenarios (Abstract)
9:45 - 10:15	Brian O'Neill Brown University/ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis	Demography, Energy and Emissions (Abstract) (Powerpoint)
10:15 - 10:30	Discussion

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break outside of the Joukowsky Forum

Chair: Osvaldo Sala, Brown University

11:00 - 11:30	Skee Houghton Woods Hole Research Center	Global Carbon Emissions, the Historical Record (Abstract) (Powerpoint)
11:30 - 12:00	Jerry Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole	Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling and Land Use Projections
12:00 - 12:30	Atul Jain Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois	Land use, the Carbon Cycle, and Climate Change (Abstract)
12:30 - 12:45	Discussion

Chair: Steve Hamburg, Brown University

2:00 - 2:30	Mercedes Pascual Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biolody, University of Michigan	Climate Variability and Health (Abstract)
2:30 - 3:00	Jim Clark Department of Biology, Duke University	Environmental Change Research on Vegetation: Assimilating the Evidence for Understanding and Prediction (Abstract)
3:00 - 3:15	Discussion

3:15 - 3:30

Coffee Break outside of the Joukowsky Forum

Chair: Jack Mustard, Brown University

3:30 - 4:00	Dan Kammen Director, Renewal and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, UC Berkeley	Energy, Climate Change, and Development (Abstract) (Powerpoint)
4:00 - 4:10	Q&A for Kammen talk
4:10 - 4:40	Michael Oppenheimer Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University	"Dangerous" Climate Change Impacts and Climate Policy (Abstract) (Powerpoint)
4:40 - 5:10	Simone Pulver Watson Institute, Brown University	Private Sector Role in Climate Policy
5:15 - 5:30	Discussion

6:00 - 7:00

Reception outside of the Joukowsky Forum

Chair: Mark Bertness, Brown University

9:00 - 9:30	Camille Parmesan Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin	Climate Change and Wild Life: Understanding Recent Impacts and Projecting into the Future (Abstract)
9:30 - 10:00	Tim Herbert Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University	Relevance of Paleoclimatology to Potential Future Climate Changes and Impacts
10:00 - 10:15	Discussion

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee Break outside of the Joukowsky Forum

Chair: Mark Bertness, Brown University

10:45 - 11:15	Gary Yohe Department of Economics, Wesleyan University	Hedging Strategies for Climate Change Policy
11:15 - 11:45	Mort Webster University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Uncertainty and integrated assessment (Abstract) (Powerpoint)
11:45 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 12:10	Closing Remarks