Antarctic Lecture - "Climate Change and Hydrology"
Monday, November 30, 2009, 07:00 PM
Fort Collins Main Library, Ben Delatour Room

"Walking through the Snow: Hydrology and Climate Change on Livingston Island, Antarctica"

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This is the third lecture as part of the Antarctic Fall 2009 series. The lecture will be presented by Dr. Steven Fassnacht, an associate professor of Snow Hydrology in the Watershed Science Program at Colorado State University.

Fassnacht received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada and was a research associate in the Hydrology and Water Resources Department at the University of Arizona before coming to CSU. His work focuses on understanding snowpack and hydrological processes and how they are represented in models used for water forecasting and simulating climate.

(At right: Fassnacht at Midge Lake, Byers Peninsula)

Fassnach has done fieldwork in various parts of the world, including the Mackenzie Delta near the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean, Ontario Canada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mongolia, the Spanish Pyrenees Mountains, and recently in Antarctica. The work on Byers Peninsula of the South Shetland Islands, off the Antarctic Peninsula, considers the possible impact of climate change on the hydrology of a permafrost and snowcover dominated watershed.

The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 30, in the Ben Delatour Room, Fort Collins Main Library, 201 Peterson Street.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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Event Contact: Uffe N. Nielsen can be reached at (970) 491-1964

Sponsored by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.