WNC to Feature Renowned Climate Scientist Charles Goldman for Earth Day lecture
Submitted by editor on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 1:59pm
Celebrate Earth Day with one of the world’s important climate scientists, Dr. Charles Goldman. He will speak about Lake Tahoe and a world water crisis from climate warming of inland waters.
The event is sponsored by the Western Nevada College Foundation. It will be held Friday, April 22, 7 pm at Marlette Hall at the Carson City campus.
Charles R. Goldman is a Distinguished Professor of Limnology Emeritus Department of Environmental Science and Policy UCD President, World Water and Climate Foundation who is known around the world.
“Earth Day helps to focus attention on the global decline of aquatic ecosystem integrity and water quality driven by climate change,” Goldman said. “I believe this is the most important environmental problem our civilization faces in this Century and beyond.”
Goldman’s decades of research has shown that our climate-based warming is a major driver of problems that are affecting aquatic systems from both severe droughts and serious flooding across the globe.
Like many of the world's inland freshwaters, Lake Tahoe, the lifeblood of Northern Nevada, continues to warm and lose transparency. Watershed erosion and fine particulates from atmospheric deposition also cloud the water column. Invasions of exotic aquatic weeds, fish and the Asian clam further threaten the ecosystem function.
The synthesis of long-term data, new research technologies, exploratory research, adaptive management, and community outreach have so far been important in conserving Tahoe’s air and water quality by greatly slowing its decline, The lessons learned at Tahoe have already proved useful for the management of other aquatic resources.
Celebrate Earth Day Friday, April 22 at WNC. Visit Western Nevada College Carson City to enjoy other events such as:
Gem & Mineral Sale
Have a Rocking Earth Day by attending the Western Nevada College Geology Club’s Gem and Mineral fundraiser on Friday, April 22, at the WNC Carson City campus. Begin or add to a personal collection during the Geology Club’s Gem and Mineral Sale. Open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Bristlecone Building lobby. Admission is free, but for a $5 cost, attendees who wish to get an early look at the specimens can be part of at a presale from 10 to 11 a.m.
“There are spectacular specimens collected from all over the world,” said Dr. Winnie Kortemeier. She estimates that nearly 1,000 rocks will be available at the sale.
The event offers a variety of activities, including a fossil dig, coloring station, activities for youth, and a bake sale.
Augmented Reality Sandbox
Geology students will debut an augmented reality sandbox. Geology Club President Dustin Parker said the sandbox will include projection of a topographic map on the sand. He said that as someone moves the sand, the map corrects to it, revealing the depth along with water tables and rain amounts.
“The NASA Community Practice Group oversees it, and it has been one of their projects this semester,” Kortemeier said. “It’s really not aimed for kids, but kids will have a lot of fun with it, too. And it will be hard to get those adults out of the sandbox.”
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