| Date | September 18, 2017 |
| Time | 6:00pm – 8:00pm |
| Location | Congressional Meeting Room South, Capital Visitor Center, Washington, DC |
You’re invited to a movie event on The Age of Consequences, a film discussing the security impacts of climate change and including insights from ASP CEO Brigadier General Stephen Cheney USMC (Ret). The event will take place on September 18th, 2017 at 6:00pm. The movie viewing will be followed by a panel discussion including ASP Consensus Member, Rear Admiral David Titley USN (Ret), founding director of USN Task Force on Climate Change, and New America’s Sharon Burke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Operational Energy.
RSVP to TheAgeofConsequences@picturemotion.com.
Speaker Biographies:
Dr. David Titley, Rear Admiral USN (Ret)
Dr. Titley is a nationally known expert in the field of climate, the Arctic, and National Security. He served as a naval officer for 32 years and rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Dr. Titley’s career included duties as Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, and Deputy Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance. While serving in the Pentagon, Dr. Titley initiated and led the US Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change. After retiring from the Navy, Dr. Titley served as the Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Operations, the Chief Operating Officer position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Dr. Titley has spoken across the country and throughout the world on the importance of climate change as it relates to National Security. The Department of Defense requested he present on their behalf at both Congressional Hearings and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meetings from 2009 to 2011.
Dr. Titley is a member of the Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative, and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Climate and Security, the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and the Association of Climate Change Officers. He is a member of the National Academies of Science committee on Geoengineering and the Center for Naval Analysis’ Military Advisory Board.
In 2009 Dr. Titley was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and in 2011 was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
CURRENT POSITION:
A Senior Scientist in the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University, and founding Director of Penn State’s Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. The Center will help organizations and citizens prosper and succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s weather and climate environment by taking advantage of all the skill in weather and climate forecasts.
The Honorable Sharon E. Burke is a senior advisor to New America, where she focuses on international security and a new program, Resource Security, which examines the intersection of security, prosperity, and natural resources.
Before joining New America, Burke served in the Obama Administration as the assistant secretary of defense for operational energy, a new office that worked to improve the energy security of U.S. military operations. Prior to her service at DoD, Burke held a number of senior U.S. government positions, including at the Department of State in the George W. Bush Administration, and was a vice president and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She attended Williams College and Columbia University, where she was a Zuckerman and International fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs. She serves as an advisor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Decarbonizing Energy, and the Pew Project on National Security, Energy, and Climate.
