Climate change will be addressed at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska this week during the 2007 Alaska Forum on the Environment.
photo: Sheila Watt-Cloutier with Bob Correll
More than 1,200 participants are expected to attend the annual symposium, which is free. It begins Monday at 9 a.m. and continues at the convention center through Friday.
Scheduled to deliver lectures are dozens of scientists, activists and native leaders, among them:
Climate change expert Robert Corell (chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment),
Native American scholar and author N. Scott Momaday,
Former California Environmental Protection Agency chief Terry Tamminen,
Alaska Native leaders Clarence Alexander, Elaine Abraham and Larry Merculieff,
Former Alaska Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, currently director of UAA's Institute of Social and Economic Research, and
Polar bear specialist Eric Regehr of the U.S. Geological Survey.
The forum will offer more than 60 lectures and workshops as well as film and musical presentations.
A proposal to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act will be discussed on Monday.
A keynote speech by Momaday begins at noon, with a report on the status of Cook Inlet's declining population of beluga whales in the afternoon.
Other subjects to be addressed this week that focus on Alaska's changing climate include shifting vegetation, insect infestations, forest fires, changes in animal migration, thinning ice, ocean acidification and decreased salmon productivity.
Also meeting will be a panel of experts to discuss the relocation of the village of Newtok due to coastal erosion.
Spotlight on climate change in Anchorage
Climate change will be addressed at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska this week during the 2007 Alaska Forum on the Environment.
Published: 12.02.2007 13:32
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