USGS Release: Projected Climate Change Impacts in California (3/20/2012 1:00:00 PM)

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Projected Climate Change Impacts in California
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Released: 3/20/2012 1:00:00 PM

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Leslie Gordon

Phone: (650) 329-4000

MENLO PARK, Calif. Decisions made by the global community about emissions will directly impact the future of the western United States. On March 22^nd, Tom Suchanek, U.S. Geological Survey climate change coordinator, will discuss how increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide might affect human land-use and environmental systems in California and the Bay Area. His talk will also answer questions about how rising sea levels will likely affect our coastal areas, and what the Sierra Nevada snowpack, sensitive fire regimes, and regional species distribution might look like in future generations.

Who:	Tom Suchanek, USGS Western Ecological Research Center Lead Scientist & Climate Change Coordinator
What:	Lecture on the consequences of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases.
When:	Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:15 p.m.—Lecture preview for USGS employees and reporters ) 7 p.m.—Public lecture (also available, streaming over the Internet)
Where:	U.S. Geological Survey Building 3 Auditorium, second floor 345 Middlefield Road Menlo Park, CA 94025
More Information:	USGS Evening Public Lecture Series
Directions:	Menlo Park Science Center Campus Map

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