UNBC is hosting UCLA Department of Geography Chair Dr. Laurence C. Smith this week, a part of the local school’s Polar Week events.
Dr. Smith is holding two lectures in UNBC’s Canfor Theatre. Thursday’s will be called The New North: Four Forces Shaping Our World in 2050, where Smith will thirty years in the future and predict to predict global trends in resource demand, climate change, and immigration. Friday’s – Supraglacial Rivers on the Greenland Ice Sheet – will focus on the contributions Greenland’s meltwater runoff have to global sea levels.
He’ll cover a lot and hopes those in attendance will learn that Canada, and other northern countries, are changing rapidly.
“It’s not just the developing world, Africa, and China. These northern, high latitudes are dynamic and changing no separate from but in many ways, some of these changes are driven by developments elsewhere in the world.”
Dr. Smith will speak on Thursday at 7 PM and Friday at 3:30 PM.
This is the school’s 7th annual “Polar’ celebrations, which focuses on research and teaching in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
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