Professor Nicolaysen presents talk on climate change

WALLA WALLA—Speaking from her lifetime experience as a rancher and as a geoscientist, Whitman Professor Dr. Kirsten Nicolaysen will be addressing climate change in a Museum After Hours presentation on Thursday, December 19 at Fort Walla Walla Museum. The museum is located at 755 Myra Road. The hour-long program is free to attend and begins at 4 pm, with additional time afterward for discussion.

Dr. Nicolaysen will address the exciting changes in public perspective regarding the climate crisis. She will briefly review the evidence that climate change is primarily caused by human choices for energy production and describe three nature-based technologies that could tackle reduction and removal of carbon dioxide, actions necessary to a healthy and stable future for humans. Any technological solution will require widespread public agreement to be successful. This talk suggests practical steps that each person can take to reduce their contribution to climate change.

Kirsten Parker Nicolaysen was raised in ranching country of Wyoming before becoming a geochemist. She studies volcanoes, primarily in Alaska, and works collaboratively with paleoecologists and anthropologists. Through her teaching at Whitman College (since 2006), her training as a geoscientist, and her love of the outdoors, she shares her experience to promote healthy human community actions within a living landscape.

Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily until February. 

For more details, call 509-525-7703 or see fwwm.org.