Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture 2016

Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The 2016 Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecturer is Dr. Jay Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine and California Institute of Technology. His lecture will be on the topic of Water and sustainability: 21st Century realities and the global groundwater crisis.

This is a free public lecture.

For those unable to attend in person, the lecture will also be available via livestream after the lecture.

About Jay Famiglietti

Dr. Jay FamigliettiJay Famiglietti is a hydrologist, a professor of Earth System Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and the Senior Water Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California State Water Boards – Region 8, and he was the Founding Director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling at UC Irvine. Before joining UCI in 2001, Jay was on the faculty of the Geological Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he helped launch the program in climate and the UT Environmental Science Institute.

Famiglietti and his team have been researching and communicating about water and climate change — in academia, in business, in government and to the general public for over 25 years. He appeared as a featured expert in the water documentary Last Call at the Oasis and in CBS News 60 Minutes. He is a frequent speaker, an avid writer and a regular contributor to National Geographic Water Currents and to the Huffington Post. His research and commentary are often featured in the international news media and in network, cable and public television news. Jay is a regular guest on National Public Radio, BBC Radio and other public radio shows. He is currently working on his first book on the disappearance of groundwater resources the world over.