DR. GILLIAN GALFORD TO PRESENT VERMONT’S CLIMATE ASSESSMENT AT STERLING COLLEGE
Vermont's first official Climate Assessment, issued in 2014, provides information about climate changes already observed in our state, predicted future changes, and likely impacts on agricultural production, forests, water resources and recreation. The authors analyzed data from over 175 scientific studies, interviewed local and state government officials, academics, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and farmers, and gathered observations from formal sources such as the National Weather Service and from citizen scientists.
Dr. Gillian Galford, lead author, will summarize key points from the assessment and explain the process. She will do so on April 7 at 7 p.m., in the Aldo Leopold Classroom in Mager Hall at Sterling College. This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Galford is a climate scientist and professor at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics within the Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont. Her research interests include deforestation and land-use change and its impacts on climate, carbon, and nitrogen. She has worked on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a range of settings, from the large-scale soybean farms of Mato Grosso, Brazil, to smallholder agricultural systems of Malawi and East Africa. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute of Columbia University and The Woods Hole Research Center.
For more information, please contact Ann Ingerson at aingerson@sterlingcollege.edu.
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