Rising Seas: An Interdisciplinary Perspective for NSU STEM Students
Location
Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation; Orbit 1
Event Website
https://nova.libcal.com/event/14105814
Start Date
11-4-2025 12:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2025 12:50 PM
Description
Note: This lecture is only open to NSU affiliates.
Coastal cities worldwide are experiencing worsening floods. A growing concern is how high seas will rise and how soon. John Englander is a noted oceanographer, now leading the Rising Seas Institute at NSU. He explains the science in plain language using simple graphics and descriptions from his many trips to the polar regions.
About the Presenter
John Englander is a renowned oceanographer, multi-book author, speaker, and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His 2012 book, High Tide on Main Street explained the science in easy-to-understand terms. Politico listed it as one of the top fifty books to read. Englander’s 2021 book, Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward (The Science Bookshelf) is rated 5-Stars.
Over a million people have read his books, or heard his message through blogs and talks in the U.S. and internationally, including a TEDx talk. He has given expert testimony to the US Congress and presented to military leadership including the US Navy, US Air Force, the US Coast Guard. Internationally he has briefed top military leaders from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
Englander is consistently rated as one of the best speakers on climate change and sea level rise. He works to help diverse professionals understand why sea level will rise far higher than most can imagine, and likely much sooner as well. As a leading spokesperson for “intelligent adaptation”, John advocates that, we must move to higher ground globally. This will have hard-to-imagine effects in 140 coastal nations. The sooner we begin planning for this profound disruption, the better.
John’s background as a scientist, explorer, entrepreneur, and CEO (International SeaKeepers Society, The Cousteau Society) combine to help him assess not just the scientific impacts of profound SLR, but also the business, economic, and humanitarian impacts. John Englander is the founding Director of the Rising Seas Institute, a nonprofit program that has become part of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), www.nova.edu in 2025.
Rising Seas: An Interdisciplinary Perspective for NSU STEM Students
Alan B. Levan NSU Broward Center of Innovation; Orbit 1
Note: This lecture is only open to NSU affiliates.
Coastal cities worldwide are experiencing worsening floods. A growing concern is how high seas will rise and how soon. John Englander is a noted oceanographer, now leading the Rising Seas Institute at NSU. He explains the science in plain language using simple graphics and descriptions from his many trips to the polar regions.
About the Presenter
John Englander is a renowned oceanographer, multi-book author, speaker, and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His 2012 book, High Tide on Main Street explained the science in easy-to-understand terms. Politico listed it as one of the top fifty books to read. Englander’s 2021 book, Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward (The Science Bookshelf) is rated 5-Stars.
Over a million people have read his books, or heard his message through blogs and talks in the U.S. and internationally, including a TEDx talk. He has given expert testimony to the US Congress and presented to military leadership including the US Navy, US Air Force, the US Coast Guard. Internationally he has briefed top military leaders from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
Englander is consistently rated as one of the best speakers on climate change and sea level rise. He works to help diverse professionals understand why sea level will rise far higher than most can imagine, and likely much sooner as well. As a leading spokesperson for “intelligent adaptation”, John advocates that, we must move to higher ground globally. This will have hard-to-imagine effects in 140 coastal nations. The sooner we begin planning for this profound disruption, the better.
John’s background as a scientist, explorer, entrepreneur, and CEO (International SeaKeepers Society, The Cousteau Society) combine to help him assess not just the scientific impacts of profound SLR, but also the business, economic, and humanitarian impacts. John Englander is the founding Director of the Rising Seas Institute, a nonprofit program that has become part of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), www.nova.edu in 2025.
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