Скачать или смотреть Impacts and Opportunities of Climate Change | Paula Bontempi | TEDxURI

Earth’s climate is changing. To understand climate change and its impacts on the Earth, we need sustained investments in infrastructure, a well-trained, interdisciplinary workforce, and high engagement with our next generation of scientists, particularly marginalized and low-wealth groups disproportionately affected by climate change.

Dr. Paula Bontempi, a biological oceanographer and the current dean of the URI School of Oceanography will share her perspective of these issues. An alumna of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (Ph.D. ’01) and a biological oceanographer for more than 25 years, Dr. Paula Bontempi became Dean of GSO in September 2020.

Previous to her current position, Bontempi served as acting deputy director at NASA’s Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate of NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She provided leadership, strategic direction, and overall management for the agency’s entire Earth science portfolio, from technology development, applied science, and research to mission implementation and operation.

Prior to her appointment as acting deputy director, Bontempi spent more than 16 years as the physical scientist and program manager for ocean biology and biogeochemistry at NASA Headquarters.

Before joining NASA, Bontempi was an assistant professor of oceanography in the University of Southern Mississippi’s Department of Marine Sciences. She grew up in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx