Global Warming
Comes to Thoreau's Concord
with
Richard Primack and
Abraham Miller-Rushing
Global
warming is already happening in Massachusetts!
Boston
University researchers Primack and Miller-Rushing have demonstrated
that
plants are
now flowering earlier and birds arrive earlier at locations ranging
from
Walden Pond
to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, from the South Shore to the Arnold
Arboretum.
In Concord,
they used Henry David Thoreau's journals to show that plants are
flowering
earlier by nearly eight days than they did 150 years ago;
blueberries by nearly a month!
Richard Primack
is Professor of Plant Ecology at Boston University and a
current Guggenheim Fellow. He is currently on
sabbatical leave at Tokyo University and Harvard University.
He is author of two widely-used textbooks on conservation
biology, which have been translated into eighteen languages.
Abraham
Miller-Rushing is a graduate student at Boston
University, as well as a graduate of Grinnell College.
He served in the Peace Corps in Suriname.
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Reserve a spot!
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Directions to the Thoreau Institute
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Doors open at 7:00 pm for a wine & cheese
reception
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Presentation begins promptly at
7:30 pm.
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$5 suggested donation is appreciated!
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