The Central Oregon Community College Foundation’s Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program is presenting Glaciers, Science and Top Secret Military Schemes by Dr. Mark Carey, associate professor of history at the University of Oregon.
The event will take place at 6:30pm on Thursday, October 16, in Hitchcock Auditorium on the COCC Bend Campus.
Dr. Carey will discuss the continuing history of human interaction with Greenland’s ice from the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic, which led to iceberg bombing and oceanographic research, to Camp Century, an under-ice, nuclear-powered US military base, the site of early glacial ice coring at the root of recent climate science.
He will also address present concerns about climate change, Greenland ice, and the reason melting glaciers matter for societies that might never even see a glacier or an iceberg.
Typical of Dr. Carey’s interdisciplinary approach to making sense of the world, this presentation will appeal to a broad audience with its elements of exploration, adventure, science, bizarre military schemes, national security and current concerns about climate science and society.
Dr. Carey is an associate professor of history at the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. He is the author of In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society Oxford University Press, 2010. He is currently working on his next book.
The program is a collaboration between the Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program and the Sunriver Nature Center. Tickets are $10 general admission and students free with ID at the door. For advance sales from the Sunriver Nature Center, call 541-593-4394 or 541-593-4442, or purchase at the door.
