August 7, 1997
Contact:
Denise Hart
603-862-0322
[email protected]
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EDITORS, NEWS DIRECTORS:
You are invited to cover the New England Regional Climate Change Impacts Workshop Sept. 3-5. The University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space hosts the event at the New England Center in Durham, N.H.
This important regional gathering will bring together stakeholders interested in identifying climate change issues that impact their communities and possible local solutions for responding to global warming.
For more information, contact Denise Hart at 603-862-0322. The conference's web-site at located at www.necci.sr.unh.edu
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New England Climate Change Workshop to be Hosted by the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
DURHAM, N.H.-- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation have selected the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space to host one of 16 regional climate change impacts workshops held across the United States during the next two years.
The New England Regional Climate Change Impacts Workshop will be held at the New England Center in Durham Sept. 3-5. Representatives from the six New England states and upstate New York, which share one general climatic region, are being invited to attend.
The workshop is part of a federal initiative to define the nation's research agenda in the area of climate change. Its purpose is to engage a broad representation of regional stakeholders in a dialogue with scientists researching climate change.
Climate change issues impact agriculture, forestry, fisheries, industry, utilities, small business ventures, tourism and other areas of life in the New England and upstate New York region. The invitational conference will include representatives from various economic sectors affected by climate change; federal, state, and local governments; universities and the research community; business and industry, non-governmental organizations and others.
New England and upstate New York regional climate change issues and perspectives identified at the conference will be brought to the National Workshop on Climate Change Impacts to be held in Washington, D.C. Nov. 10-12.
The Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space is a multidisciplinary research institute devoted to understanding the Earth, its component systems and the surrounding environment of space. The institute investigates physical, chemical and biological processes which shape the current environment and which may contribute or respond to future global change.
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