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Speaker: Will Steffen
Will.Steffen<at>affa.gov.au
Visiting Fellow, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australian Government, GPO Box 858, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Title of the talk:
The evolution of the Anthropocene: From hunter-gatherers to a global geophysical force (pdf: 9MB)
Biosketch
Will Steffen is currently Science Adviser, Australian Greenhouse Office, and Visiting Fellow, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australian Government, Canberra. In addition, he is the Chief Scientist of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Steffen received his PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1975 from the University of Florida, USA. After working for five years as a research chemist, he joined the CSIRO Division of Environmental Mechanics, Canberra, to work in science management, editing and communication. In 1990 he became the Executive Officer of IGBP’s Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) core project, based in Canberra. He took up IGBP’s directorship in 1998 and served as Executive Director from then until June 2004. Steffen’s science interests span a broad range within the field of Earth System science, with a special emphasis on terrestrial ecosystem interactions with global change, the global carbon cycle and on adaptation to global change, particularly in relation to agriculture.
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