Feb 8: Discovery to Action: Change from the Poles to Our Shores

The brilliant blue water atop the ice sheets is emblematic of rapid change at the ends of our earth. This change at the poles is now appearing at coastal communities around the globe. The the changing ice sheets remain a frontier full of rich discovery; rivers, waterfalls and water that runs uphill. As these discoveries feed our ice sheet models they also motivate my individual actions to address how we can keep our planet both habitable and beautiful.

Robin Bell is Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

For more information about the 45th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, visit the conference event page: http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/discovery-to-action-change-from-the-poles-to-our-shores/