A two-day symposium organized by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG) looks at a critical climate question. The future of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current, a primary feeder of the Gulf Stream and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, is of great societal concern as planet Earth warms. The prospect of warmer waters, stronger tropical cyclones, and continuing (and faster) relative sea-level rise will impact all peoples living along the Gulf-facing coasts of the United States and Mexico. The overall goal of this symposium is to build public awareness in order to promote coastal resilience.

A joint effort of LLILAS and the Jackson School, this symposium brings together academic and non-academic researchers from the U.S. and Mexico to build on existing studies by scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and JSG who study the waters between the Campeche Peninsula and Cuba, known as the Yucatan Channel, through which the loop current enters the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean.  

Symposium times

Thursday, Sept. 5, 9 AM–4 PM
Friday, September 6, 9 AM–1 PM

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This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz.