Professor Andrew Weaver, CRC - University of Victoria  Thursday, October 1, 2009   "Global Warming:  The Scale of the Problem and the Path to the Solution"
	(This lecture will be jointly sponsored by the Ram Myers Lecture in Sciences and Society fund and the Killam trust fund.)   Professor Weaver holds a Canada Research Chair, is author of the book “Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World” (published by Viking Canada in 2008; it will be available or purchase at the lecture venue) and a major contributor to the Nobel prizewinning work of the IPCC. His research focuses on the large-scale ocean circulation and the role of the oceans in climate, with a special emphasis on three-dimensional numerical modelling. Recent themes include the stability and variability of the global thermohaline circulation, feedbacks within the coupled air-sea-ice climate system and possible implications for both past and future climates. .

	Professor Louis Fortier, CRC - Universite Laval  Thursday, November 26, 2009   "The Warming Artic Ocean"
	Professor Louis Fortier studies zooplankton and marine fish population dynamics with special emphasis on the Arctic Ocean and holds a Canada Research Chair on the response of arctic marine ecosystems to climate warming. He spearheaded two highly successful NSERC Research Networks on the response of the Arctic Ocean to global climate change. He is the leader of ArcticNet, a Network of Centres of Excellence, which brings together Canada’s best arctic specialists in the natural, social and health sciences with the aim of anticipating the impacts of climate warming and modernization in the Arctic on the health and economy of northern communities and on the economy of Canada in general.

	Professor Victoria Fabry - California State University  Thursday, December 3, 2009 "Ocean Acidification"
	Professor Fabry’s current research focuses on the sensitivity of calcareous organisms and marine ecosystems to elevated carbon dioxide and ocean acidification, and the dissolution kinetics of biogenic calcium carbonates in the upper ocean. She is member of several U.S. and international advisory committees, presented testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the “Impacts of Anthropogenic CO2 on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers” in 2004, and is among 19 environmental researchers from across North America who have been awarded Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships for 2009.

The lectures will take place in Ondaatje Hall starting at 7pm (except for Professor Weaver's lecture which will begin at 7:30pm).  All lectures will be followed by a reception.  For additional information, please view the lecture series poster.