The U.S. Forest Service stewards the Tongass and Chugach, two enormous forests. Insect-kill and longer, more intense fire seasons in Alaska mean lots of dead trees and massive releases of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, “turning up the burner” on the whole planet. In this preview to his Classrooms for Climate talk, Cleaves says he’s coming to share adaptive management strategies, and learn from Alaska land managers, who already have a leadership team working on response.

He speaks Thursday, May 5 from 5:30-7 p.m. in the ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 120. This interview was recorded April 28, 2011.

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Classrooms for Climate

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U.S. Forest Service

The agency where Cleaves is climate change advisor

Chugach National Forest

Homepage

Tongass National Forest

Homepage

At the Classrooms for Climate conference at UAA May 4-7, Julie Decker, chief curator for the Anchorage Museum, will anchor a panel of artists discussing their reactions to climate change. The panel includes Marybeth Holleman, writer; Garrett Burtner, architect; Hal Gage, photographer; Klaus Mayer, architect; and Libby Roderick, musician. Do artists have a catalytic role? What is the narrative they tell?

This panel will take place Friday, May 6 at 9 a.m. in Rasmuson Hall.
The interview with Julie Decker was recorded Wednesday, April 27, 2011.

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Classrooms for Climate, speaker previews

Preview conference highlights through the words of presenters

Classrooms for Climate

Conference homepage

Common Space

homepage for design inquiry; the fall 2011 sessions will focus on landscape, including climate change

Alaska Design Forum

Homepage for this local organization focusing on design and northern living

In this excerpt from an interview with “The Fate of Nature” author Charles Wohlforth, Charles begins by reading a passage from his book about his young daughter’s observations of the never-satisfied hermit crab. Is that our human destiny, to scramble mindlessly after a better shell (job, car, house, spouse) until we’ve exhausted all resources? Wohlforth finds evidence of different, more cooperative, human behavior that might mean we won’t squander our long-term existence in pursuit of short-term pleasure and satisfaction.

Wohlforth is a plenary speaker at Classrooms for Climate conference at UAA May 4-7, 2011. His talk is Friday, May 6 at 10:45 a.m. in Cuddy Hall. This interview was recorded April 27, 2011.

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Classrooms for Climate

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Charles Wohlforth

personal website, "The Fate of Nature"

'The Fate of Nature'

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Shad O’Neel studies Alaska’s volatile calving glaciers. In this short preview to his plenary session for the Classrooms for Climate conference at UAA May 4-7, O’Neel discusses the dramatic and fast-changing landscape of Alaska’s mountain glaciers, contrasts the dramatically differing behavior of Columbia and Harvard glaciers in Prince William Sound, and ponders whether Anchorage will need to search for a new water source as Eklutna glacier diminishes.

O’Neel’s talk at Classrooms for Climate is May 5, 11 a.m. in Cuddy Hall. This interview was recorded April 26, 2011.

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Shad O'Neel, USGS

Bio page

Classrooms for Climate

Plenary speaker bio page

Classrooms for Climate

Conference homepage

USGS Alaska Science Center

Homepage

Juneau Icefield Research Program

Homepage for a program Shad O'Neel talks about

JP Leous is national climate change policy adviser for The Wilderness Society and plenary speaker at Classrooms for Climate conference. He delivers a strong message of job creation thanks to changing climate: hydrologists, project managers, construction teams, guys on backhoes—all doing restoration and climate smart conservation projects. He speaks Saturday, May 7 at 11:15 a.m. in Lucy Cuddy Hall. Find links to Classrooms for Climate conference and other sites below media player.

This phone interview was recorded April 22, 2011.

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Classrooms for Climate

Conference homepage

Chugach National Forest

Homepage

The Wilderness Society

Homepage

JP Leous

Blog

Interview

JP Leous, Progressive Radio