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2015-2016 UC Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Series ~ Plants, Water and Climate

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Date:

20 Oct 2015

Time:

4:30pm

Venue:

LT7, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK

Speaker(s):

Professor Inez FUNG

Biography of Speaker:

Professor Inez Yau-Sheung Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., will visit United College between 12 and 25 October 2015 as the College’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2015-16. Professor Fung was born and raised in Hong Kong. Upon graduation from King’s College, she went to America and enrolled in Utica College in New York State. She then transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received her S.B. (1971) and Sc. D. degrees (1977) there, in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Meteorology, respectively. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Organization of Spiral Rainbands in a Hurricane”, won the C.G. Rossby Award for Outstanding Thesis of the Year, and Professor Fung was the second woman to graduate from MIT with a doctorate degree in meteorology. In 1988, she moved to University of California (UC), Berkeley, and was appointed the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, and currently holds a join appointment as a professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science as well as the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Professor Fung is also the co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Professor Fung was an editor of the Journal of Climate in 1996-98 and a contributing author to the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The contributions of this body were recognized by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Professor Fung has played a pivotal role in compiling a joint report of the US National Academy of Sciences and the UK Royal Society on climate change. The scientific accomplishments of Professor Fung are succinctly summarized by the citation statements composed on the occasion of the award of the Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to her. Specifically, this citation praises her pioneering role in laying the ground work in the new field of biogeoscience, her ingenuity in combining theory and measurements to prescribe observational constraints on complex processes, and her unique ability to bridge across the boundaries of traditional separate subdisciplines in the traditional earth sciences. Professor Fung is also credited as the lead architect of computer simulations of the myriad interactions between the carbon cycle, other biogeochemical cycles, various physical components of the Earth System, and human society.

Admission:

Seats can be reserved for the lecture via online registration at
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=340232.

Enquiries:

For further information, please contact Mr George Lam at 39437598 or Ms Amy Yeung at 39437455 of the Dean of Students’ Office

Event Details:

Lecture will be delivered in English