New York Times environment reporter, author to lecture at UAF

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: 907-474-7778
09/12/07

Andrew Revkin, author of an award-winning family book about climate change, will kick off this year’s University of Alaska International Polar Year visiting author series with a lecture on Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus.

Revkin has been covering climate research and politics for more than 20 years. He is currently a New York Times environmental reporter and is the author of "The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World." He will discuss how climate change is more complex than has been depicted in the media, but is still a major global challenge. Revkin argues that the solution to global warming lies in stabilizing the Earth’s concentrations of greenhouse gases, but that such an endeavor will require a sustained energy quest that has not yet been made a national priority.

Revkin will also discuss his 2003 trip to the North Pole with a team of climate scientists, which provided the backdrop for his book. He will be available following the lecture to sign copies of his books.

Revkin’s visit is part of the University of Alaska’s contribution to International Polar Year efforts to promote research, education and outreach activities that focus on the arctic and Antarctic regions.

For more information contact Jenn Wagaman, UAF Center for Research Services outreach coordinator, at 907-474-5082 or jenn@alaska.edu or Cherie Solie, IPY statewide outreach manager, at 907-474-6264 or c.solie@uaf.edu.

About IPY
The polar regions have profound significance for the Earth’s climate and environments, ecosystems and human society. IPY is an interdisciplinary and internationally coordinated research campaign, ushering in a new era of polar science. For more information on IPY, visit www.alaska.edu/ipy/.