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SUMMARY:Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge acti
 on networks - Profesor Charles Kennel (University of California\, San Dieg
 o\;  formerly \, Director  of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy)
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CONTACT:Dr Dick Fenner
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kennel is the former Executive Vice Chancellor of UC
 LA\, its chief academic officer.  In the 1990s he was Associate Administra
 tor at NASA and Director of Mission to Planet Earth\, the world's largest 
 Earth science program. Kennel’s experiences at NASA convinced him of the
  growing importance of Earth and environmental science\, and he decided to
  devote the rest of his career to these and related fields. He became the 
 ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor 
 of Marine Sciences at the University of California\, San Diego\, serving f
 rom 1998 to 2006. Dr. Kennel was the founding director of the UCSD Environ
 ment and Sustainability Initiative. He presently is a distinguished profes
 sor\, emeritus\, of atmospheric sciences at Scripps\, senior strategist fo
 r the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute\, and leads the University o
 f Cambridge/UCSD Global Water Initiative.\n\nHe presently chairs the Calif
 ornia Council on Science and Technology and the Space Studies Board of the
  US National Academy of Sciences. \n\n
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR0
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