Journalist to Speak on Arctic and Climate Change

The seventh annual Stefansson Memorial Lecture, cosponsored by the Dickey Center Institute for Arctic Studies and the Stefansson Arctic Institute (SAI), will feature The New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin on Wednesday, November 1. Revkin's 4:30 p.m. talk in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, "The North Pole was Here: On the Front Lines of Climate Change, from the Arctic to the Beltway," is free and open to the public.

On November 2, Revkin will participate in a roundtable discussion, also free and open to the public, in the Hayward Lounge, Hanover Inn, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
A reporter for the Times since 1995, Revkin was the first reporter to file stories from the sea ice around the North Pole. His climate change coverage earned him the first National Academies Communication Award for print journalism and he has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2005, one of his Arctic images won an Award of Excellence in the Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition. He is the author of The Burning Season, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, and the young adult book The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, signed copies of which will be available at the Dartmouth Bookstore after his visit. Revkin is also the recent recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship.

Dartmouth has a long history of collaboration with the SAI. Established in 1998 in Akureyri, Iceland, it operates under the auspices of the Icelandic Ministry for the Environment and bears the name of explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who served as Dartmouth's director of polar studies and helped found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover. Rauner Special Collections Library houses the extensive Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration, the explorer's private research collection, a gift of the Stefanssons and Albert Bradley '15.

Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies Ross Virginia calls Stefansson, "a legend among Arctic explorers."

By GENEVIEVE HAAS

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