ROM Hires Curator of Climate Change
The Royal Ontario Museum has hired a curator of climate change for what it calls the first role of its kind at a major museum.
Environmental scientist and researcher Soren Brothers is taking the post at the Toronto museum, which is signalling its intention to advance public engagement on issues relating to climate change, biodiversity and conservation.
“We are in urgent need of a course correction on climate change,” says Josh Basseches, the museum's director. “Given that the climate crisis is really about the interrelationship between human actions and the natural world, ROM is uniquely situated to address this pressing global issue."
He described Brothers as an accomplished scientific researcher and public communicator, and said he will weave evidence-based research and knowledge into programming, exhibitions and education to raise awareness and inspire action on sustainability and the climate emergency.
Brothers says he hopes “to open pathways to new ideas and tangible solutions on this most pressing issue.”
Brothers, a native of Toronto, was at Utah State University, where he studied carbon cycling and metabolic processes in lakes and other aquatic ecosystems and their direct impact on climate change. He has a doctorate in limnology from Potsdam University in Germany and is currently leading a global project that brings together 100 collaborators to assess greenhouse gas emissions from desiccating environments.
Source: Royal Ontario Museum
