Science Lecture Series
December 2021 Speaker
Dr. Cassaundra Rose
Maine Won’t Wait:
How Maine is Taking Action on Climate Change
Thursday, December 9th at 7:00 pm
Maine celebrates one year of “Maine Won’t Wait: a four-year plan for climate action” on December 1st. Learn about the science that informed Maine Won’t Wait, what lessons 2021 has brought, and how people, businesses, and communities can act in support of this plan.
Cassaundra is a Senior Science Analyst and Climate Council Coordinator with the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF). Dr. Rose has more than ten years of academic climate research experience, with expertise in long-term shifts in terrestrial and oceanographic environments and their variability. She holds a MS in Geology from the University of California, Riverside, and a PhD in Earth and Environmental Science from Columbia University. Dr. Rose supports the state climate council, science-based policy analysis, and communications for GOPIF.
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The Science Lecture Series at Versant Power Astronomy Center will take place on the second Thursday of each month and is a partnership project with the Maine Science Festival and will feature research from a variety of science disciplines from around our state and use the digital planetarium to visualize these discoveries in a new dramatic and immersive way.
Tickets for planetarium programs are $7 for Adults, $6 for UMaine Students/Veterans/Senior Citizens, and $5 for children under 12. Click here to view our calendar.
Tickets are available online at http://astro.umaine.edu, by calling 581-1341, or at the box office.
Previous Speaker
Dr. Seth Campbell
Eyes on the Arctic: Global Connections to the Icy North
Thursday, November 11 at 7:00 pm
Whether you know it or not, the Arctic impacts nearly every living creature across the planet. This vast web of icy mountains, glaciers, tundra, oceans, and ecosystems each play a vital role in global Earth system processes. Dr. Seth Campbell will tell this tale through his eyes as a past participant on over two dozen expeditions into the icy North. This includes such stories as climbing to the summit of the highest peak in North America and as Director of the nationally renowned Juneau Icefield Research Program.
Dr. Seth Campbell is an Assistant Professor of glaciology at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth & Climate Sciences. He is Director of the longest operating Polar field research and training program in North America, the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). Seth also holds an intermittent research geophysicist role with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory where he works on occasional Polar projects of national interest. Seth has participated in over 60 research expeditions across the planet focused on quantifying Polar environmental change and relating those changes to human impacts. At UMaine and JIRP, Seth focuses on building Earth and planetary science research collaborations while also inspiring the next generation of Polar scientists, engineers, educators, and others who are interested in the natural world.
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