Dr. Peter Griffith is the founding director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Office, supporting the North American Carbon Program (www.nacarbon.org), a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program designed to quantify continental-scale carbon sources and sinks in North America; the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (http://above.nasa.gov); and the Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Focus Area at NASA HQ (http://cce.nasa.gov).

• Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds cartoon https://youtu.be/85TQHzS88L4
• Origin Story for Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds https://youtu.be/VcxCk1zkaUw
• Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6903296/

Through participation in this session, participants will understand and be able to

• Identify sources of carbon dioxide and methane to our atmosphere contributing to climate change.
• Provide examples of current impacts we’re seeing to landscapes, ecosystems, and society that are attributable to climate change.
• Describe ways in which climate change may potentially affect the Upper Delaware River Watershed.
• Describe mitigation measures that may help to lessen climate change impacts to the Upper Delaware River Watershed.