Antarctic Researcher Continues Sustainability Lecture Series
October 29, 2009
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A local expert in climate change who has studied the effects of warming temperatures in Antarctica continues Ferrum College’s Sustainability Lecture Series on Nov. 5.
Jeb Barret, assistant professor of biological sciences at Virginia Tech, will present observations about his research in the polar desert ecosystems of Antarctica.
The lecture, sponsored by Ferrum’s School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 in the Blue Ridge Mountain Room in Franklin Hall.
Barret focuses on how subtle changes in climate affect carbon cycling through processes mediated by soil organisms. He serves on a team of researchers at the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research site on the frozen continent.
More information on Ferrum’s lecture and film series for the 2009-2010 academic year is available at www.ferrum.edu. Or contact Glen Stevens at (540) 365-4554 or gstevens@ferrum.edu.