Feb. 17 Olson Seminar to focus on climate, environment data for Great Plains
Released on 02/02/2010, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010
WHERE: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place
One of the most notable features of the Great Plains region is its natural extreme variability in weather and climate, making it difficult to pick out the effects of climate change.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln climatologist Kenneth Dewey will address that problem when he presents "Searching for a Climate Change Signal Amidst the Noise of Climate Variability" in the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place [map]. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the museum are free and open to the public.
Using the old adage, "think globally, act locally," Dewey will start his presentation with an assessment of global climate trends but will primarily focus on what the climate data and other environmental indices indicate for the Great Plains region and locally in Nebraska. Dewey said the seminar is not intended to be either a pro- or anti-global warming presentation, but merely a discussion of the evidence in hand.
The Olson seminars are presented by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.