BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8322@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240307T200000 DTSTAMP:20240223T153743Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-contrail-cirrus -the-impact-of-aviation-on-climate-change/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Contrail Cirrus: The Impact of Aviation on Climate Change DESCRIPTION:CONTRAIL CIRRUS: THE IMPACT OF AVIATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE\n\n\n \n\n7 MAR / 6 – 8 PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY / REGISTER\n\nJoin us for an in -conversation on the impact of aviation on climate change\, with a focus o n the effects of contrail cirrus\, with photographer John Davies and Geoff Maynard\, Chairman of Greener by Design\, the Royal Aeronautical Society ’s sustainability think tank. This discussion will be chaired by Profess or Andy Morse\, Professor of Climate Impacts.\n\nCirrus Aviaticus is a se ries by photographer John Davies\, exhibited as part of LOOK Climate Lab 2 024. The B&\;W infrared photographs are of the north sky above Liverpoo l and Lancashire\, showing condensation trails and contrail-induced cirrus clouds produced from jet engine exhaust fumes. Scientific research sugges ts they are the largest net warming component of aviation emissions.\n\nSp eakers:\n\nJohn Davies\n\n‘I draw inspiration from issues relating to my surroundings and conditioning. Initially I develop an interest in documen ting aspects of my immediate social political landscape. Importantly\, mak ing images of a landscape that attempts to question our acceptance and per ception of the inevitable consequences of living in a post imperialist soc iety and within a post industrial landscape’.\n\nSince 1981 John Davies has worked on long-term projects relating to the urbanised landscape. In p articular the enormous changes that have taken place in the UK – the wor ld’s first industrial society and the first to de-industrialise. This wo rk has focussed on the industrial heartlands of Britain and to create a na rrative by telling visual stories about process\, change and transformatio n. During this time he has also worked on various exhibition and publicati on projects throughout Europe particularly in France\, Italy and Spain. He has produced various books\, most notably ‘A Green &\; Pleasant Land ’ (1987)\, ‘Cross Currents’ (European landscapes 1992)\, ‘The Brit ish Landscape’ (2006) and his last monograph was ‘Retraced 81/19’ (2 019).\n\nIn 2000 he began to document the civic spaces of various UK post- industrial cities. By 2006 he started to focus on parks and public open sp ace. With an interest in local politics he became actively involved with v arious Liverpool campaigns to save parks and open green space from develop ment schemes. In 2018 he became a founding director of Liverpool Open & \; Green Spaces\n\nCommunity Interest Company to help enable legal actions .\n\nSince 2012 he has been experimenting with an infrared camera and maki ng time-lapse movies and still images of the north sky over Liverpool with a particular interest in the contrail cirrus clouds formed by aviation.\n \nGeoff Maynard\n\nGeoff has worked in the aviation sector for 25 years\, undertaking a wide range of aviation related commissions\, many of an envi ronmental nature. Educated at Queens’ College\, Cambridge\, and gaining an honours degree in Natural Sciences\, Geoff has held leading senior posi tions in both the private and public sectors. Initially joining British Ra il as a graduate trainee\, he held a series of operating and commercial po sts\, including Director London Rail Development\, where he was actively i nvolved in the planning of improved rail links to London’s airports. Sub sequently he joined an aviation consultancy business\, working on many maj or projects including Heathrow’s T5\, the Olympic Terminal in Beijing\, and a new airport for Swaziland.\n\nFor the last 13 years he has been Mana ging Director and co-owner of Altra Capital Ltd\, a specialist Management Consultancy company focusing on providing bespoke management advice\, espe cially in the transport and financial sectors. He was elected Chair of Gre ener by Design in 2014\, having previously chaired the operations group.\n \nHe was a member of the joint Cambridge University/MIT project to design a silent (<\;57dBA) aircraft\, and is also a visiting lecturer at Brunel University\, giving a series of lectures every year since 2005 on current aviation environmental issues for the Aviation MSc module. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society\, and also a Fellow of the Chartered In stitute of Logistics and Transport\, a member of their Aviation Policy Gro up and a Fellow of the RSA.\n\nProfessor Andy Morse\n\nAndy Morse is Profe ssor of Climate Impacts in the School of Environmental Sciences\, Universi ty of Liverpool\, U.K.  His Ph.D. is in Atmospheric Physics from the Univ ersity of Manchester\, where in the mid 1980s he worked in the north Penni nes and measured the amount of water impacted from hill clouds on to the m oorland surface. This coupled with chemistry measurements of the water all owed the calculation of pollutant inputs to the fragile upland ecology via this previously unseen route of ‘occult precipitation’.\n\nAndy now m ostly works on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on hu man and animal health.  He is best known for his work at seasonal scales using ensemble predictions of seasonal climate variability on vector borne diseases. He has worked with a range of infectious diseases including mos quito borne diseases:- malaria\, Rift Valley fever\, dengue and Zika\; as well as tick borne diseases. He develops disease risk models that are driv en by a range of forecast and climate model data over a range of timescale s. Much of his work has been focussed on sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nHe was co- awarded the 2006 World Meteorological Organisation’s Norbert Gerbier-MUM M International award for the work on integrating impacts models within se asonal ensemble forecasting systems. He is a fellow of the Royal Meteorolo gical Society and other professional organisations.\n\n \;\n\nImage:  artwork by John Davies\, photo by Rob Battersby\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2024/02/WEB-SIZE-OPEN-EYE-Look-Climate-Lab-JAN-2024-©Rob-Battersby-9.jp g CATEGORIES:Talks LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR