IDEAS is sponsoring a science talk about climate change on Nov. 18, 2010 from 7:30 – 9 p.m. You are invited, and so are your middle and high school students – we have been getting very positive responses from teachers and students who have attended events this year and last. So please let your students know that they are welcome – maybe you can give them extra credit – and IDEAS will give each student an attendance certificate on Hofstra letterhead to prove attendance. Hope we see you and your students on Nov 18 for

Confessions From the Caribbean: Climate Change in Paradise
Gordon Taylor
Of the Department of Oceanography, Stony Brook University
Thursday, November 18, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Monroe Lecture Center, South Campus,
Hofstra University

Gordon Taylor is one of the founding investigators of the international CARIACO oceanographic time series program that has been continuously collecting data on ocean conditions and carbon cycling off the north coast of Venezuela since 1995. Data from the last 15 years have divulged significant changes in temperature and productivity, and levels of carbon dioxide, acidity and oxygen.

For more information about the speaker and his research, visit http://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/people/taylor.html


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