Programs & Events
U.S. Climate Change Expert Meets Students at Pannasastra University
Pannasastra University
June 19, 2009
On June 19, U.S. Forest Service Research Ecologist Dr. Steve McNulty discussed climate change impacts in the U.S. and Cambodia with an audience of over 400 students, faculty and guests at Pannasastra University in Phnom Penh. Dr. McNulty’s presentation outlined the basic scientific concepts behind climate change, as well as the relationships between climate change, mitigation efforts, and water resources. He also highlighted the similarities between climate change challenges in the U.S. and Cambodia. The students, primarily from Pannasastra’s introductory environmental sciences course, raised a number of questions during the session, ranging from domestic efforts in the U.S. to combat climate change to the effects of ocean acidification on marine life.
Dr. McNulty is one of the U.S. Government’s top climate change scientists and served as the U.S. Forest Service Southern Global Change Program Manager on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh North Carolina, since 1996. He served as a U.S. Congressional Fellow in the 106th Congress, and he was the federal chair of the National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Forests. Dr. McNulty is currently the U.S. Chair of the United States China Carbon Consortium, and he has authored or co-authored over 150 papers in the area of environmental stress impacts on forest ecosystems. Dr. McNulty also contributed to climate change reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
