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Meltdown – What people should know and why they should care about glaciers
Wed. January 25, 6:00 PM
The Portsmouth Brewery
Jimmy LaPanza Lounge
56 Market Street, Portsmouth NH 03801
Admission: FREE
Cameron Wake is a climatologist with the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and a faculty fellow in the UNH Sustainability Institute. He also directs Carbon Solutions New England, a public-private partnership promoting collective action to achieve a clean, secure energy future while sustaining our unique cultural and natural resources.
Larry Hamilton is a professor of sociology and senior fellow at UNH’s Carsey Institute. He has written widely about statistical methods in articles and books including six editions of Statistics with Stata (1990–2006). His research involves human/environment interactions in the Arctic, and surveys of public opinions and knowledge about climate.
Winter Science Café
Series: Our Changing Water
Wednesday February 22, 6 pm – Creative solutions to pollution around the Piscataqua – from oysters to septics. Discussion led by Rachel Rouillard (Piscataqua Region Estuary Project), Rebecca O’Brien (Surfrider Foundation) and Jeff Barnum (Great Bay Waterkeeper), moderated by Melissa Paly of CrossCurrent Communications.
Wednesday March 22, 6 pm – Investments in Portsmouth’s Peirce Island facility – will we notice the difference? Discussion led by , Tom Irwin (Attorney at Conservation Law Foundation), andTerry Desmarais (Portsmouth City Engineer), moderated by Sam Evans Brown, NHPR.
Wednesday April 19, 6 pm – Raging Rivers – Is New England prepared for increasingly extreme weather? Discussion led by Mary Stampone (NH State Climatologist) and Cliff Sinnott (NH Coastal Risk and Hazards Commission), moderated by Sam Evans Brown (NHPR).
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