Newswise — The presidents of Iceland and Bangladesh will each present lectures on the topic of global climate change on Monday, Nov. 5 in New Orleans as part of the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.

On Mon., Nov. 5, from 8 to 9am, President of Iceland Olafur Grimsson will comment on climate change and how Iceland can be a laboratory for global solutions. His talk is the plenary Nyle C. Brady Frontiers of Soil Science Lecture and will be presented in the La Louisiane Ballroom of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Following the President's lecture, there will be a Q&A for the Media beginning at 9 am in the same room.

Also on Mon., Nov. 5, from 5:30-6:00 pm President of Bangladesh Iajuddin Ahmed will present a lecture, "Bangladesh: Problems of Global Warming, Land Inundation, and Arsenic Poisoning." This will follow the Soil Science Society of America Awards Program and will be presented in Room R03-R05 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Following the President's lecture, there will be a Q&A for the Media beginning at 6:00 pm in the same room.

President Grimsson has served as Iceland's president since 1996 and has been an advocate for using renewable energy and finding innovative solutions to global warming. He has promoted cooperation among countries in the northern regions of the world, including a recent collaborative project involving Columbia University, the University of Iceland, the University of Toulouse, and Reykjavík Energy to find a way to sequester carbon dioxide deep in the ground for millions of years.

President Ahmed is a former Professor of Soil Science at Dhaka University in Bangladesh. Much of his work has focused on practical applications to improve food and health conditions for humans. President Ahmed will also address the threats of arsenic water poisoning, population increases, and riverbank erosion. According to Ahmed, a number of issues are threatening the sustainable development of the country, which is primarily an agro-based economy. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), impacts of global climate change are slowly becoming visible and several countries, including as Bangladesh, are more at-risk than others. Both presidents will address the domestic and global nature of climate change as an opportunity to work across borders and by sharing scientific successes for the global good.

The ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meetings will be Nov. 4-8 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. More than 4,000 scientists and professionals from around the world will attend research presentations on climate change, urban planning, crop production, hazardous waste, human health, bioenergy and more. For more information, go to http://www.acsmeetings.org.

The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) www.agronomy.org, the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) www.crops.org and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) www.soils.org are educational organizations helping their 10,000+ members advance the disciplines and practices of agronomy, crop and soil sciences by supporting professional growth and science policy initiatives, and by providing quality, research-based publications and a variety of member services.

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