Human Health, Environmental Health and Climate Change
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
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The MENA region and the world are already experiencing the effects of climate change, which are expected to intensify over time. Organisms serve as indicators of these environmental changes, offering insights into the health of ecosystems and their influence on human health. Using transdisciplinary research and diagnostic techniques, we can better understand and address the impacts of climate change on global ecosystems and human communities. In his talk, Bob Richmond will reflect on his experiences in providing capacity development workshops to Egyptian stakeholders, linking some of the mentioned themes to the contextual realities of Egypt and the MENA region and correlating this with capacity development initiatives in other countries/regions.
Speakers
Bob Richmond
Dr. Bob Richmond is a Research Professor and Director of the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the Dept. of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, and subsequently spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, 18 years on the faculty of the University of Guam Marine Laboratory, and has been a Research Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 2004. He has spent his career studying marine and coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean and the Pacific. He is a past President and Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society, the Science Advisor to the All-Islands Committee of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, vice chair of the board for the Palau International Coral Reef Center, member of the Expert Scientific Panel to the Pacific Island Forum on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant discharge, and was a member of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine expert committee on Interventions to Support the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs. He is both an Aldo Leopold Fellow in Environmental Leadership and a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He works closely with community-based organizations, elected and traditional leaders and stakeholders, and has trained over 80 Pacific Islanders in his laboratory. His research interests include coral reef ecology, marine conservation biology, climate change, ecotoxicology, bridging science to management and policy, and the integration of indigenous ecological knowledge with modern approaches to resource use and protection