Dartmouth Events

Join the Irving Institute for a Faculty Seminar featuring short talks on current research from Irving Institute Faculty Affiliates.

During this session, we'll hear from Evans Family Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences Mathieu Morlighem and visiting scholar Joerg Matschullat.

Open to Dartmouth faculty, researchers, and postdocs.

Lunch will be served and a Zoom link is available for those unable to attend in person. 

Please RSVP. 

About the Talks:

Joerg Matschullat: Taking the Pulse of Nature – How Robotics and Sensors Assist in Ecosystem Management. 

Humankind is confronted with mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss and increasing inequality. In order to cope, we humans need to adapt our ways of life to nature - not vice versa. Yet, how to do that? Much more sustainable and smart solutions are needed, some emerge from technological advances. Using our work in the Amazon basin as example, this talk shows how the application of robotics and of special sensors significantly assists in improved understanding of resilience and vulnerability of various ecosystems. Such understanding is the base for changes in land management. One important result yields the information that there is no “one size fits all”-solution. Instead, highly locally adapted measures are needed to guarantee a no-regret move forward.

(Sub)tropical ecosystems behave significantly different from e.g., temperate ones. Thus, solutions obtained from temperate region experience may not help at all to increase the resilience of (sub)tropical environments. We show examples from terrestrial and aquatic systems in the inner wet tropics (Amazon biome) to illustrate such differences and suggest adaptive measures.

Mathieu Morlighem will give a talk titled "The Future of the Ice Sheets in a Changing Climate."