[Web4lib] ANNOUNCEMENT: Live Online Program about Land Use and Climate Change

[Tom Peters]

Greeings!  

On Thursday, February 15, the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Johnson County (Kansas) Library will co-sponsor an online presentation and discussion about land use and climate change.  Everyone is welcome to attend and participate.  There is no need to register, and no registration fee.  For those of you are interested in this topic but cannot attend the live online event, we plan to record, archive, and podcast it, too.

Details about this online event are below.  For live links and information about other upcoming OPAL online programs, please visit http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm.

Thursday, February 15, 2007 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 6:30 p.m. Central, 5:30 p.m. Mountain, 4:30 p.m. Pacific, and 12:30 a.m. Friday morning GMT: 
Climate Impacts of Land Use 

This presentation, sponsored by Linda Hall Library and its One Book Project (The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth), will explore local and regional scale impacts of agricultural and urban land use changes on climate processes, and the associated feedbacks with particular emphasis on the central United States. Specifically, the roles of contrasting forested and agricultural land covers in the initiation and subsequent evolution of summertime cloud patterns in the U.S. Midwest; and the impact of agricultural practices, including irrigation, on the surface climate of the U.S. High Plains will be discussed. Results from recent modeling studies that examine the increasing role of urbanization in modifying local warm season precipitation regimes will also be presented. Dr. Jimmy O. Adegoke, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will be the speaker. 

CO-SPONSORS: Johnson County Library and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology 

LOCATION: OPAL Auditorium (version 4)


http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=67955673&p=0

NOTE: This online event will last approximately 90 minutes. 

 
Tom Peters, OPAL Coordinator

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