Climate Change and Life : The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond

• Examines the link between climate change and extinctions in the geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
• Explores the concept of ecological resilience, the principal reason why the Earth has remained continuously inhabited by organisms for almost four billion years
• Discusses how the ongoing influences of climate change will continue to shape a planet that will head toward extremes

• Examines the link between climate change and extinctions in the geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
• Explores the concept of ecological resilience, the principal reason why the Earth has remained continuously inhabited by organisms for almost four billion years
• Discusses how the ongoing influences of climate change will continue to shape a planet that will head toward extremes

Dr. Gabriel Filippelli is a Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. Filippelli is a Biogeochemist with broad training in climate change in marine and terrestrial systems. Filippelli has published broadly, including publications in Science, Nature, and Geology as well as in specialty journals and in popular press. He has personally directed over $9M of research funding over his career. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the journal GeoHealth, published by the American Geophysical Union. Filippelli is a Fellow of the International Association of Geochemistry, has been a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Newcastle (Australia), and a National Academy of Sciences Jefferson Fellow, where he served as a Senior Science Advisor for the State Department, with a policy portfolio including Antarctic climate change.