The speaker for the 2025 Donald L. Sparks Distinguished Lectureship in Soil and Environmental Sciences is Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School. Dr. Rosenzweig is also a professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation in rural and urban settings.

Doors open at 2:45 p.m. Lecture commences at 3 p.m. A reception will immediately follow from 4 to 5:30 p.m. To attend, please register in advance.