On Saturday, October 6, Marylhurst is hosting a unique Climate Change Forum, featuring
speakers from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. Morning sessions will
explore the latest scientific research on the extent of climate change based on ocean
data, computer models and paleontological evidence. After a lunch break, the afternoon
panelists will focus on the the economic, ethical and social justice ramifications
of climate change - such as OHSU's studies on the consequences upon health and the
work on preparing Oregon coastal communities for expected changes. The full-day event
will wrap up with a moderated Q&A session, followed by an informal coffee reception.
Sign up for a boxed lunch! Lunches will be available for purchase at the event. Tell
us your meal preference below:
Meet the Speakers
Dr. Anthony Strawa, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Strawa is Chairman of the San Jose Diocese Catholic Green Initiative and a Catholic
Climate Ambassador. He spent 18 years as an Atmospheric Scientist at NASA Ames Research
Center specializing in the effects of aerosols (particles in the air) on climate and
air quality. He is currently the Director of the New Opportunities Center at NASA
Ames Research Center. He has worked extensively with the Sierra Club on climate issues
and has taught Environmental Science at Santa Clara University. As a Catholic Climate
Ambassador he has spoken at the American Geophysical Society Conference in 2011 on
Communicating Climate Science to the Public and at many parishes and groups in the
San Francisco Bay area. [Visit professional website]
Dr. Alan Mix, Professor of Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Oregon State University
Dr. Mix is a professor Oregon State University in the College of Earth, Ocean, and
Atmospheric Sciences. With a PhD. in geology, Dr. Mix focuses his research on the
paleoceanography of surface and deep-ocean circulation, planktonic foraminiferal ecology
and paleoecology, and paleoclimatology of cave deposits. He founded and currently
serves as director of the COAS Stable Isotope Laboratory. [Visit professional website]
Dr. Kyle Dittmer, Professor of Geology, Marylhurst University
Dr. Dittmer teaches for the Department of Science and Mathematics at Marylhurst Universtiy.
He has traveled all over the world on geological and climate change projects. He is
currently conducting climate change impact work from the Iceland volcanic eruption
of 2010. That same year, he traveled to Wuppertal, Germany to discover the latest
climate change research by their scientists. In 2006, Kyle traveled to Copenhagen
to initiate collaboration with scientists at the Danish Climate Center to study climate
change in Greenland. [Visit professional website]
Andreas Schmittner, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
Dr. Schmittner received his doctorate in physics at University Bern in Switzerland.
He currently teaches for Oregon State University in the College of Earth, Ocean, and
Atmospheric Sciences. His research interests include paleoclimate and global coupled
ocean-atmosphere-biogeochemical modeling. Dr. Schmittner has published extensively
on climate change. [Visit professional website]
Dr. Andy Harris, MD, OHSU Health Center
Dr. Harris first began providing medical care overseas as a medical student in Sierra
Leone in the 1960s. In 2008, he launched Professionals' Training in Global Health,
an 11-week course offered at OHSU's Global Health Center that trains medical staff
to treat a range of conditions they may encounter while serving overseas. His continued
work with the Global Health Center focuses on the impending medical consequences of
climate change and the ways in which to respond to these health problems. [Visit professional website]
Joe Cone, Assistant Director and Communications Leader, Oregon Sea Grant
With Oregon Sea Grant since 1983, Joe has produced in many media, including books,
photographs and video, radio and podcasts. He is lead investigator on three national
communications projects, and an adjunct graduate faculty member in three OSU departments:
Marine Resource Management, Science and Math Education, and Public Policy. Current
projects include Climate Variability and Community Resilience: Testing a National
Model of State-Based Outreach, a NOAA-funded collaboration with Maine Sea Grant, and
the Hazard Resilient Coastal Communities: National Climate Survey, also funded by
NOAA.
Nicholas A. Bond, JISAO Deputy Director, Washington State Climatologist
Dr. Bond serves as an affiliate associate professor with the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences at University of Washington. His past research involves the collection and
analysis of low-level atmospheric observations over the ocean, based on special field
measurements from moored buoys and aircraft. A majority of his current work is under
the broad umbrella of the Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigation (FOCI),
which focuses on the variability in climate and atmospheric forcing of the Bering
Sea, and topographical effects on coastal winds in Alaska. The results from this work
are being applied to issues related to the marine ecosystems in Alaskan waters, with
a special emphasis on the impacts of climate. [Visit professional website]
John Stevenson, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
John Stevenson is the Regional Climate Extension Specialist with the Climate Impacts
Research Consortium at OCCRI, the new NOAA-funded Regional Integrated Science and
Assessment project for the Pacific Northwest. Previously he was a research analyst
and field researcher with Ecotrust and also worked with NOAA's Office of National
Marine Sanctuaries. He holds an MS in Marine Resource Management from the College
of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, and a BA in political
science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. [Visit professional website]
Maya Story, music therapy faculty, will give a presentation on guided imagery and music at the Association for Music and Imagery in June 2013.
John Paul's Film Score Featured in Festival
Dr. John Paul, music department chair, will conduct a live performance of his musical score for the 1930 silent film City Girl at the Astoria Music Festival on June 20, 2013.
