A discussion on global warming and ways that plants, wildlife and humans living in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin will adapt to climate change will be the focus of a free April 23 forum at Western Nevada College in Carson City.
Sponsored by Sierra Nevada Forums and the WNC office of Student Life, the forum will feature Dr. Michael Dettinger, research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Research Program, and a research associate of the Climate, Atmospheric Sciences and Physical Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif.
The forum will be moderated by Dr. Tim Brown, research professor and director of Atmospheric Sciences, Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute.
The forum will be in the Aspen building, Carson Nugget Hall (upstairs) at WNC, 2201 W. College Parkway, Carson City. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with the presentation beginning at 6 p.m. A Meet the Scientists wine reception will follow. The cost of the reception is $10. RSVP is required. Call Judy Welch at (775) 721-1731 or Andie Wilson, (775) 721-2980. (See flier below.)
Background on Scientists
Dr. Michael Dettinger is a renowned research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Research Program, and a research associate of the Climate, Atmospheric Sciences and Physical Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif.
Dettinger has monitored and researched the hydrology, climates, and water resources of the West for more than 30 years, focusing on regional surface water and groundwater resources, watershed modeling, causes of hydro-climatic variability, and climatic-change influences.
He has authored over 90 scientific articles in scholarly journals and books, 20 government reports, and another 70 articles in less formal outlets. Among other activities, he was the physical-sciences team leader for DOI-DOD ecosystem planning in the Mojave Desert, founding member of the CIRMONT Western Mountain Climate Sciences Consortium, climate advisor to the CALFED Bay-Delta Restoration Program, research advisor for USGS Surface-Water Discipline, member of the USGS Global Change Science Strategic Planning Team, and lead author of the Water Resources chapter of the 2013 National Climate Assessment.
He has degrees from the University of California San Diego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (Atmospheric Sciences).
Dr. Tim Brown is the director of the Desert Research Institute and conducts research and applications development in applied climatology and meteorology, with emphasis on the application of data analysis, statistical methods and scientific visualization to atmospheric sciences and wildland fire related data.
His primary academic interests include analysis of wildland fire-climate and fire-weather relationships and applications product development for wildland fire management planning, decision-making and policy, and the interface between science and decision-making.
Dr. Brown is Director of the Western Regional Climate Center, and established and directs the Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications (CEFA) at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. He is graduate faculty in the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
He received his Ph.D., Climatology; University of Colorado, Boulder (1995) M.A., Climatology; University of Colorado, Boulder (1988) B.A., Astronomy; University of Illinois (Sangamon State Campus), Springfield (1982).