An exclusive presentation by the University of Colorado's
Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Konrad Steffen

and
An executive briefing by the University of Colorado's Vice Chancellor for Research
and Dean of the Graduate School

Stein Sture

6-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Sausalito Yacht Club, Foot of El Portal, Sausalito, CA 94965

for directions, click on: small scale map or large scale map

Golden Gate Ferry Schedule

San Francisco Pier 41 to Sausalito Ferry Schedule

Stein Sture is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Prior to his current role, he served as the faculty director of special projects and initiatives in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and also served as interim vice chancellor for research and dean of the Graduate School from October 2005 through July 2006. Professor Stein Sture is the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.

Konrad ("Koni") Steffen is the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the largest research unit at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Fellow of CIRES since 1991 and a Professor with the Department of Geography where he teaches climatology and remote sensing courses. His research interest is the study of processes related to climate and cryosphere interaction in polar and alpine regions based on in-situ and satellite measurements, and using climate system modeling to study their sensitivity. He has an active involvement in the assessment of global sea level change and sensitivity studies of large ice sheets using in situ and modeling results. For the past ten years he was involved in organizing a NASA/NSF initiative called PARCA: Program in Regional Arctic Climate Assessment. Currently, his research is supported by NASA Cryospheric Sciences, NASA/GSFC, and NSF/Arctic System Science for climate system modeling, remote sensing application related to ocean-climate-sea ice interactions, and the assessment of climate change in Polar Regions. Currently he serves as Co-Chair of the WMO Word Climate Research Program (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) program, Vice president of the IUGG Comission for Cryospheric Sciences, and recently, he has been nominate to serve on the National Academies Polar Board.