An interactive climate change exhibit is on display at Colorado State University’s Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research launched the traveling exhibit, “Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes.”
“Our faculty are conducting innovative research on energy, air quality, protecting our environment, and water — all areas impacted by climate change — so we are excited to showcase this exhibit,” CSU engineering dean Dave McLean said in a news release.
The exhibit uses pictures, infographics and personal stories to explain how scientists know the climate is changing, what that future may look like, and how the impacts are affecting people, from flooding and drought to sea level rise and severe weather, the release said. It also lets visitors explore how their own choices make a difference.
NCAR and the college will host an NCAR Explorer Series panel discussion and reception at 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3m in the atrium of the Scott Bioengineering Building, 700 Meridian Ave. (northeast corner of Laurel and Meridian avenues), in Fort Collins.
The event is free and open to the public. The panel will begin at 6 p.m.
Due to limited space, registration is required at https://advancing.colostate.edu/NCAREXHIBIT.
Parking is free after 4 p.m. in Lot 310 on the north side of the Lory Student Center.
The panel will include some of the college’s experts in climate change, including Jim Hurrell, former director of NCAR who is now Scott presidential chair in environmental science and engineering at CSU. His research focuses on analyses and model simulations of climate, climate variability and climate change, according to the release.
Other panelists include Bob Henson, a meteorologist and writer at Weather Underground, who helped develop the traveling NCAR climate exhibit as a consultant; Tami Bond, CSU’s Scott presidential chair in energy, environment and health and professor in mechanical engineering, who studies complex links between energy, climate and human choices; Ellison Carter, CSU assistant professor, civil engineering, who studies health impacts of household energy use; Emily Fischer, CSU associate professor, atmospheric science, who studies impacts of oil and gas development on air quality and connections between fires and air quality; David Randall, CSU University Distinguished Professor, atmospheric science, who studies the effects of clouds on climate and how to represent cloud effects in climate models; and Russ Schumacher, CSU associate professor, atmospheric science, and Colorado state climatologist, who studies weather forecasting and precipitation extremes such as flash floods.
The exhibit will be open to the public through March 12 in the atrium of the Scott Bioengineering Building.
