SCIENCE & BUDDHISM

January 31 @ 2pm

* Meeting online via Zoom *

Climate Crisis, Climate Dharma 4

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Please join us for a talk by Dr. George Jacobson, on the ways of global climate cycling and a discussion of possible policy ways forward. Dr. Jacobson has worked with colleagues around the world studying the historical trends found in life's detritus left behind in sediment and ice. He has had the opportunity to serve legislatures (US Senate and State of Maine) to facilitate policies and laws to protect this rock we live on.

Zoom meeting (starts Zoom)

 
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George L. Jacobson is Professor Emeritus of Biology, Ecology, and Climate Change at the University of Maine.  Since his arrival in Maine in 1979, Dr. Jacobson has been a member of the Climate Change Institute, and he was Director of the Institute for nearly a decade.  His scientific research has focused on long-term climate variability and specifically on forest responses to climate changes during the past 60,000 years. An important segment of his research has dealt with the implications of paleoecology for both present-day conservation biology and climate science. The research examines how communities and ecosystems have adapted to natural climate variability. Prof. Jacobson’s projects have included sites in North America, South America, and Europe.   Among other things, he has served as an external advisor on climate to the European Science Foundation, and to the Finnish Academy of Sciences.  From 2008 to 2014, he had the honorary designation of Maine State Climatologist.  

Professor Jacobson joined the faculty of the University of Maine in 1979 after three years working in the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., first as a AAAS Congressional Science Fellow and then as a staff scientist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.  He was born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, and earned a B.A. in 1968 from Carleton College, and a Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota.  From 1968-1970 he served as a medic in the United States Army.

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As always, our “Last Sundays” Science & Buddhism discussions are quite open and informal with all invited to participate.

All are welcome. No prior experience with science, Buddhism, or meditation is necessary. Hope to see you there!

 

ONLINE ZENDO ETIQUETTE

To help maintain as best we can the intimacy and integrity of an in-person gathering, we ask all who join us online to please observe the following practices.

  1. Sign in using real name.
  2. Keep microphone muted unless speaking during discussion periods.
  3. Maintain zendo silence during meditation periods and while waiting for discussion period to begin.
  4. Keep camera on and maintain facial visibility during discussion period.
  5. Anonymous participation online will not be permitted, as it would not be permitted in person.