Event: Climate and Energy Symposium – Mar. 29-30

“Adapting to Climate and Energy Challenges: Options for U.S. Maritime Forces” – a symposium sponsored by CNA, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), the Navy Task Force on Climate Change, the Navy Task Force on Energy, and the APL’s Global Assimilation of Information for Action Independent Research and Development to be held March 29-30, 2011 at the JHU/APL’s Kossiakoff Center in Laurel, MD.

The symposium agenda features a series of themed presentations and roundtable discussions structured to explore the options available to U.S. maritime forces – those of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard – as they adapt to the challenges imposed by changes in global climate and energy supply and demand.  Confirmed speakers include: RADM David Titley, Oceanographer of the Navy and Director Navy Task Force Climate Change; RADM Philip Cullom, Director Fleet Readiness Division and Director Navy Task Force Energy; and Col. Robert Charette, USMC Expeditionary Energy Office.

Ron Filadelfo, Ph.D. director of CNA Environment and Energy will serve as the event’s co-chair, along with JHU-APL National Security Studies Fellow, L. Dean Simmons, Ph.D, who will serve as general chair

To register for “Adapting to Climate and Energy Challenges: Options for U.S. Maritime Forces” visit http://www.jhuapl.edu/ClimateAndEnergy/Default.aspx

(Note: following the symposium the papers, and transcripts of discussions, presented will be published and provided to all participants and attendees.)