Tuesday, April 1, 6:15 pm at Halyburton Park meeting room, 4099 S. 17th Sktreet, Wilmington NC
Topic: Cooking the GOOS: Salinity, Sea Level Rise and the Oceans
Presenter: Dr. Fred Bingham
The ocean plays a major part in global climate change. We know that sea level is rising and the oceans are getting warmer. To go along with this, the salinity of the ocean is changing, in concert with changes in the global water cycle. This talk will describe how the changing ocean is observed, both by satellite and in situ (wet) observations, and what that might mean for our region.
Dr. Bingham is an oceanographer in the Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography at UNCW. In addition to holding a PhD in Oceanography from the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Bingham has held positions at Tohoku University in Japan and the Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa. He has been especially interested in the role of ocean salinity and its connection to the global water cycle. Dr. Bingham has been a member of NASA’s Ocean Salinity Science Team since 2009.