Seminar

A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey

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David Goodrich, former Director of the Climate Observations Division at the NOAA Climate Program Office (retired)

Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 3:30 pm Mountain Time
DSRC 2A305

Abstract
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After retiring from NOAA in 2011, David rode 4200 miles from Delaware to Oregon, looking at climate up close and talking with people along the way. On the road, he came across a toddler's beauty pageant in Maryland, the landscape of fracking in Pennsylvania, a tornado party in Missouri, and a modern ghost town in Wyoming. The trans-American route is filled with history, ranging from an Underground Railroad hub in Ohio to the Badlands fortress of the Ghost Dance in South Dakota. As shown in fragmented islands on the East Coast, droughts in Kansas, and disappearing glaciers and dying forests in the Rockies, climate change is something happening here and now.


Dr. David Goodrich is the former Director of the Climate Observations Division at the NOAA Climate Program Office. He was also Director of the Global Climate Observing System at the World Meteorological Organization and served on two NOAA ships. He currently chairs the Board of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. In addition to his cross-country bicycle trip, he has ridden down the Appalachians and across Montana, South Dakota, France and Spain. His book, A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist's Bicycle Journey Across the US, was released from Pegasus.

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