Iowa Climate Statement 2013: A Rising Challenge to Iowa Agriculture
9:00 am
Friday, October 18, 2013
Drake University

In the wake of 2013’s extreme weather rollercoaster, marked by the wettest spring on record, followed by the second-driest July through September ever, a statewide group of leading Iowa science faculty and researchers will release the Iowa Climate Statement 2013: A Rising Challenge to Iowa Agriculture.

The event will be held at 9 AM on Friday, October 18th, in the south end of the Cowles Library, Reading Room, 2nd Floor at Drake University.   Map of Drake Campus http://www.drake.edu/visit/map/

This event is part of the Iowa Climate Science Educators Forum, a meeting of science faculty, researchers and students from Iowa colleges and universities. For more information visit http://artsci.drake.edu/ensp/node/42

The lead authors of the Iowa Climate Statement 2013: A Rising Challenge to Iowa Agriculture include:

Gene Takle, Director, ISU Climate Science Program, Professor of Agronomy, Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University.

Jerald Schnoor, Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa

Christopher J. Anderson,  Research Assistant Professor, Assistant Director, ISU Climate Science Program, Iowa State University

Greg Carmichael, Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa

Laura Jackson, Director, Tallgrass Prairie Center, Professor of Biology, University of Northern Iowa

Neil Bernstein, Chair, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Mount Mercy University

David Courard-Hauri, Chair, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Drake University

Joe Bolkcom
Outreach and Community Education Director
Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and the Iowa Flood Center
The University of Iowa
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Iowa City, IA 52242

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