MIT professor to speak at HBKU’s climate seminar

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in collaboration with MIT, will be hosting a seminar tomorrow on global climate change and its impact on the hydrology of the Nile and the ongoing water conflict. The lecture, titled “Hydrology and Climate of the Nile Basin: Past, Present, and the Future”, will be delivered by Dr Elfatih Eltahir, Breene M Kerr Professor of hydrology and climate and professor of civil and environmental engineering at American university MIT. By reviewing the documented history of the regional climate over the Nile Basin, the lecture will delve into the role of the variations in the solar radiation in shaping regional climate over North Africa, which triggered the human migrations associated with the emergence of old pharaonic civilisation. The seminar will be taking place at the Cinema Hall of the HBKU Student Centre from 4pm to 6pm.