October 20, 2014 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost:
Free
Fort Collins Old Town Library
201 Peterson Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524 United States
Contact:
Phone
9702133206
Email:
matt.knox@colostate.edu

Additional Information

Join us at the Fort Collins Old Town Library from 7-8 p.m. on October 20, for the School of Global and Environmental Sustainability Antarctic Lecture Series. Presenting this lecture will be Adam Wlostowski, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University.

The topic of the night will be the physical hydrology of the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Ecosystems waiting for water.The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are one of the coldest and driest environments on Earth. Across this landscape, the scarcity of liquid water is a primary control on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Just like you and I, these ecosystems find it difficult to survive and thrive without liquid water! This lecture will use 21 years of data to review the current and past physical hydrology of the Dry Valleys and discuss the various sources of liquid water across the landscape. Furthermore, we will explore how regional hydrology might change under warmer climate scenarios and investigate possible ecosystem implications.