Please join us on Wednesday, April 22, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT for a free online event with The National Academy of Sciences that will explore the intersection of music, climate science, and community action.
The program will feature clips and a discussion of a previously recorded performance of Icarus in Flight, an original chamber work by acclaimed composer Richard Festinger, performed by the award winning Telegraph Quartet. Icarus in Flight is a science-guided composition that models three human drivers of climate change – population growth, fossil fuel use, and land-use change–over two centuries, from 1880-2080 based on widely accepted IPCC data.
To register for this free event, please click here.
Panelists: Richard Festinger, Icarus in Flight composer, San Francisco; William D. Collins, James and Catherine Lau Chair in Sustainability, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California at Berkeley; Coordinating lead author, WG1 AR6, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Amanda Staudt, Director, Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate and Polar Research Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, D.C.;
Laurie Goldman, Director, Public Engagement, The ClimateMusic Project, San Francisco, California Moderator:
Barbara Stauffer, Chief of Community Programs, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
This program is part of The ETERNAL Experience series taking place throughout spring 2020 at NAS, organized by LabX and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences