Lecture to discuss ’currents of climate change: the Arctic Ocean’

Submitted by Amy Hartley
Phone: (907) 474-5823
11/22/04

Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean are transforming, and since the late 1980s scientists have studied the ocean more intensely. Their goal is to find out how changes in the Arctic Ocean relate to climate change throughout the entire Arctic region.

Dr. Peter Schlosser, a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, will give a lecture entitled, "Studying a Changing Arctic: an Oceanographic Perspective." He will examine the possible causes, patterns and predictability of Arctic climate change. The lecture will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, November 29, in Room 210 at the Natural Sciences Facility on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Dr. Schlosser is the chairman of the forthcoming US arctic research program SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change).

This is the inaugural S.T. Lee Foundation Lecture in Arctic Studies. The new lecture series welcomes international scientists like Peter Schlosser to Fairbanks to share their research on the Arctic. The series is organized by the International Arctic Research Center, UAF.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.iarc.uaf.edu/schlosser/php

CONTACT:
The International Arctic Research Center, (907) 474-6012.