Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Kim Koo Library (328), Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.
Lunch provided
Professor Holland is an accomplished scientist, complex system and design thinker, diplomat, and educator with 20+ years of solution focused experience in the field of Climate Change Sustainable Development, Oceanography, and Environmental Science. Professor Holland contributed to 5+ reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Professor Holland is an Aldo Leopold/Earth Leadership Fellow, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, SOARS Presidential Award for Excellence in Mentoring, proven ability in developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific institutes and programs, successfully builds and maintains relationships with relevant national and international stakeholders to further the organization’s goals.
Professor Holland is a Distinguished Research Fellow the Institute of Strategy Resilience and Security at the University College London. She is an expert in Climate Change, the Ocean, and Sustainable Development in the context of national and international development.
She is a sought-after science communicator, with 17 presentations at COP26. Beth has demonstrated success serving as a motivational, innovative, and receptive leader who encourages collaboration for solution focused and action-oriented team development.
Professor Holland serves on international advisory boards, including the World Climate Research Program Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) steering committee, Education for Seapower Advisory Board, the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection, the GESAMP Climate Task Team and the Greenhouse Gas Emission Working Group, the advisory boards of ZMT, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research in Germany, the Naturalis Advisory Board in Leiden, the Netherlands, the Priestley Center Advisory Board in the UK, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pacific Region Technical Advisory Group, and the EU Horizon 2020 COMFORT stakeholder working group and member of Climate Strategies.
Institute at Brown for Environment & Society; Climate Solutions Lab