Orono, Maine â The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will co-host a talk by Fran Ulmer on why rapid Arctic change matters and how the science community can help from 3â4 p.m. on Monday, March 8.
Fran Ulmer is an Arctic Initiative senior fellow at Harvard Universityâs Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government. She chaired the U.S. Arctic Research Commission from 2011 to 2020 and served as a special advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry on Arctic science and policy from 2014 to 2017. In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed her to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She has spent more than 45 years in public service and is a member of both the global board of The Nature Conservancy and the board of the National Parks Conservation Association.
Mitchell Center talk with former U S Arctic Research Commission chair: Why rapid Arctic change matters
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DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation has announced the election of four new members to its Board of Directors including; Caryl Hart, PhD, Dawn Wright, PhD, Keith Tuffley, and Stephen H. Lockhart, MD, PhD. The new Board of Directors appointments took place between February last year and January this year.
Caryl Hart - Caryl is Commissioner, California Coastal Commission appointed by Speaker Anthony Rendon in 2019, and currently serves as Interim General Manager of the Sonoma County Agricultural and Open Space District. Caryl is an attorney with more than 25 years of advocacy, parks acquisition and management, scholarship and administrative experience. She served for 13 years as a member of the California State Parks Commission, including seven years as Chair. In 2014, Dr. Hart was appointed by then-Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the Parks Forward Commission to assist in forming a sustainable pat
Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity who worked on drafting the DRECP,
called that last-minute move “irrationally punitive and a final middle finger to the state of California on renewable energy issues.
When Trump moved to redo the plan, California Democrats, including Rep. Raul Ruiz and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, quickly came out in opposition alongside conservation groups.
Chris Clarke, associate director for the California desert program at the National Parks Conservation Association, applauded the Biden administration s move.
“Scrapping these rollbacks from the final days of the previous administration will help protect the California desert s stunning landscapes, native wildlife, sacred tribal lands and national parks from reckless energy developments, Clarke
Oil drilling on sensitive New Mexico public lands puts drinking water, rare caves at risk
A National Geographic investigation has found that Permian Basin energy exploration could taint residential aquifers with pollutants as well as Carlsbad Caverns and other cave systems.
The Chihuahuan Desert in the Guadalupe Mountains of southern New Mexico is one place where sensitive public lands are being drilled for oil.Photograph by Robbie Shone, Nat Geo Image Collection
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At 4.3 miles long, Parks Ranch Cave in southeastern New Mexico is the second longest gypsum cave in the Western Hemisphere. The cave and its multiple branches are among 550 that crisscross a fragile, sinkhole-prone geologic region renowned for Carlsbad Caverns.
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