Melting Away
The U.S.S. Bear and the S.S. Corwin navigate ice floes
near Nome, Alaska, in the late 1890s. (Photo courtesy Dartmouth College
Library)
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The Dickey
Center’s Institute of Arctic
Studies and War and Peace Studies Program continue their series on Climate
Change and National Security with a lecture by polar researcher Lawson Brigham.
In “Marine Access in a Changing Arctic,” Brigham, deputy director and Alaska
office director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission in Anchorage, Alaska,
and chair of the Arctic Council, will discuss the social, economic, and
environmental implications of the opening of navigation routes due to melting
ice in the Arctic.
- Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m.
- Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium
- 646-2023
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