We invite you to an online lesson celebrating Glacier Day, World Water Day, and Meteorological Day - three events celebrated in March. Warren Raymond Lee Cairns will lead this lesson in English for high school students. The lesson is organised within the LIQUIDICE HE Project.
Climate change: yes another lesson on climate change! 23 March at 10 am CET (Brussels time)
Description: We have known that climate has been happening for nearly 100 years, and the theorised causes were known for even longer. So why are scientists still studying climate change and what effects is it having? This talk will lead students through how we came to understand that climate change is happening and what we can do as we face a warmer ice free future.
Expert: Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
He is an analytical chemist specialised in trace elemental analysis. His work is to determine the role, fate and toxic effects of heavy metals in the environment and their impact on humanity. All of these parameters are being heavily affected by climate change, so he is a reluctant climate scientist because he has had to study climate change to understand the results he is seeing.
He has participated in 3 Antarctic Expeditions to Concordia Station and Mario Zucchelli Station. He is the Italian Observer on the POPs and Mercury Expert Groups of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program as well as on the Arctic Contaminants Action Program of the Arctic Council.
He has co-authored over 100 publications and he is the coordinator for the Atomic Spectrometry Updates Environmental Analysis review of the Royal Society of Chemistry.