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Rolling the Climate Dice: How Can We Make Sense of Climate Scenario Science?

Presentation with Dr. Lisa Micheli, Executive Director, Pepperwood Foundation

Thursday August 28, 7:00pm 
Location: Heron Hall, Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401
$10 at the door. No RSVP necessary.


Dr. Lisa Micheli will introduce us to the science of “downscaling” future climate models and will highlight cutting-edge research that has been done here in the North Bay to see what our future may hold in terms of both climate, water, and natural resources. She will talk about how this data is being used via the North Bay Climate Adaptation Initiative in partnership with the Laguna Foundation and in the context of the Sonoma County Climate Action 2020 Plan. Learn how scientists are working to make the global local in order to understand how climate change is already impacting our every day experiences and what our neighbors at Pepperwood are doing to start measuring these effects in real time.

Lisa Micheli is the Executive Director of the Pepperwood Foundation. Her credentials include AB Harvard College, MPhil Cambridge University, MS and PhD UC Berkeley. Lisa applies her technical, policy, and fundraising expertise to the design and implementation of ecological restoration, research and education programs. She is the co-chair of the Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Collaborative (TBC3), the chair of the science working group for the North Bay Climate Adaptation Initiative (NBCAI), and a member of the Santa Rosa Plain Technical Advisory Committee. She joined Sonoma County’s Pepperwood Foundation in October of 2009 as its first Executive Director.

For more information about this talk, see www.lagunafoundation.org 

Or contact Anita Smith, Public Education Coordinator, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation (707) 527-9277 x 110, anita@lagunafoundation.org

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