2020 GRC/GRS on Climate Engineering
Douglas MacMartin
Hi all,
The program for the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Climate Engineering is now online, here: https://www.grc.org/climate-engineering-conference/2020/, the meeting is planned for June 28-July 3, 2020.
If you haven’t yet applied, we encourage you to do so! We are looking forward to what will be an exciting and valuable meeting. If you are an early-career researcher, we also encourage you to apply to the associated Gordon Research Seminar held immediately before the GRC; see here: https://www.grc.org/climate-engineering-grs-conference/2020/. We expect to have some (very limited) funding available to assist in supporting early-career researchers in particular; if you would need funding please email me directly; our original goal was to make decisions regarding that by the end of March but given the current uncertainty that will likely be delayed until mid-April.
The GRC organization is, of course, monitoring the current rapidly evolving situation with the coronavirus. If you already applied to the conference, you should have just received an email from them (I did, I presume everyone else did too). As of today there has not been a decision by GRC as to whether we will go forward with the conference as scheduled. The GRC organization will make a decision by mid-April as to whether it will be necessary to delay the conference – in which case any registration fees will be refunded, and we will wind up not meeting again until 2022. While that would of course be disappointing, it is far more important to protect everyone’s health.
Thanks, and hopefully will see many of you at the end of June!
doug
Douglas MacMartin
Senior Research Associate and Senior Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and
Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Cornell University
https://climate-engineering.mae.cornell.edu/