climate change and us - uc

CLIMATE CHANGE AND USUncertain Future: Physical, Biological, and Societal Impacts of Global Climate Change

Join three experts at the University of Cincinnati for a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary discussion of the topic during the September Cincinnati Museum Center Insights Lecture, beginning at 7 p.m. on Sept. 12, in Tangeman University Center’s MainStreet Cinema.

Climate Change and Us focuses on how and why has Earth’s climate changed over the last 65 million years, how climate is changing today and what we can expect in the future. It was developed by the Cincinnati Museum Center in partnership with researchers from the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences.

The exhibit is the first of four signature CMC exhibits to be installed at UC as part of CMC’s

Curate My Community initiative, which brings a selection of museum collections to the public during Union Terminal’s two-year renovatioin.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Tom Lowell, Geology: The Physical Basis for Past and Future Climate Change

Dr. Brooke Crowley, Geology and Anthropology: The Biological Repercussions of Climate Change

Dr. Adrian Parr, Political Science and School of Architecture and Interior Design: Birth of a New Earth

Monday, Sept. 12 5:30 p.m. - Reception 7 p.m. - Exhibit Preview

Tangeman University Center, Great HallUniversity of Cincinnati2766 UC Main St.Cincinnati, OH 45221

Online registration is requested by September 2.http://tinyurl.com/okmxfgt

Eocene56-34 million years ago

“Hothouse”

23-5 million years ago

Miocene“Home on the Range”

Pleistocene2.6 million years ago-11,700 years ago

“Icehouse”

Holocene11,700 years ago - Present“Humans and Civilization”