Award-winning journalist to speak on Arctic climate change

Date & Time

4-5 p.m., Wed., Sept. 23, 2009

Location

Earth Sciences 162, University of Calgary campus

Journalist Ed Struzik gives a free talk titled “Six-foot Tall Beavers and Three-toed Horses: What the past tells us about the future of Arctic climate change”

Ed Struzik, an award-winning journalist who has worked extensively in the North, will speak on climate change in the Arctic as part of Arctic Change, a speaker series hosted by the Arctic Institute of North America.

Join Struzik at the University of Calgary, Room ES 162, on Wednesday, Sept. 23 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. to learn what the past can tell us about the future of climate change in the Arctic.

Ed Struzik is an award-winning writer/photographer whose articles have appeared in various journals, magazines and newspapers. He is author of three books including The Big Thaw, which was published in April 2009 by John Wiley and Sons. Struzik is the recipient of more than 30 national and international awards and fellowships, including the $100,000 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.

The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by Sept. 21 to 403-220-7294.

For more information contact:
Ruth Klinkhammer
Director of Communications
Arctic Institute of North America
Tel: (403) 220-7294
Email: r.klinkhammer@ucalgary.ca