Paul Pechan will be delivering a lunch time talk on climate change, farming, and science and risk communication, titled: How climate change may (or may not) impact behavior of farmers

Paul received his PhD in plant physiology from Cambridge University. After 2 postdocs (the second being at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa) he had the opportunity to start a research group in plant molecular biology at a Max Planck Institute in Germany. For the next 15 years researched how stress can influence cell division and differentiation in plants. Because of his growing interest in science and risk communication, he then changed fields completely to start a new career as a social scientist at the Institute of Communication and Media Research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. His is currently coordinating a project looking at how climate change impacts the behavior of farming communities in Tunisia and Chile. That is also the topic of his lunch talk.