Leslie Field joins panel for Global Climate Action Summit
EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S./Ph.D. ‘1991), the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), will be participating in a panel on “Restoring the Climate: Achievable Solutions” at the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit. Field is the founder and CEO of Ice911, an organization devoted to mitigating climate change by using reflective sand as a natural heat shield to restore ice in the Arctic. The panel will “explore the mission of climate restoration and some of the solutions that can get us there, creating jobs and economic benefit in the process.” The Global Climate Action Summit will run from September 12-14 in San Francisco.