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VAIL, Colorado — If an American robin shows up at your doorstep in Vail in January, is this evidence of climate change? And how do we know if ecological change around us is due to climate change or some other phenomena?
Kim Langmaid, a local naturalist and environmental educator, will share her research, which can help answer these and many questions, in a free talk at the Avon Public Library at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday. The presentation is open to the public and is part of the High Country Speaker Series, hosted by Gore Range Natural Science School and Eagle Valley Library District.
In her presentation, “Seeing Shifts: Ecology and Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains,” Langmaid will share her recent adventures exploring the scientific stories and experiences of prominent mountain scientists who study the effects of climate change on plants and animals from New Mexico to Montana.
Over the course of her many years living in the Eagle Valley, Langmaid says she began to notice more and more ecological changes that she felt might be related to climate change but did not have scientific backing. She says she noticed changes in the timing of bird migrations.
“People would describe their own observations and ask me if I thought the changes were due to climate change,” she says. “I couldn't give them a clear answer. It was frustrating.”
In her presentation on Tuesday, Langmaid will share what she learned from a year's worth of research and meetings with ecologists who work in mountains throughout the West.
“My travels took me to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana,” she says. “I went to some beautiful and interesting places and actually saw how each ecologist collects his or her data. ... I absolutely think about global climate change differently now than I did before. The work has also brought up even bigger questions about what it means to be human at this moment in time.”
Langmaid is an environmental educator and natural historian who has lived in the Eagle Valley since 1969. She is the founder of Gore Range Natural Science School and she has taught environmental studies for Teton Science Schools' graduate program and for Prescott College's master of arts and PhD programs in sustainability education.
RSVP to the Avon Public Library at 970-949-6797, and for more information about the science school, please visit www.gorerange.org.
Kim Langmaid, a local naturalist and environmental educator, will share her research, which can help answer these and many questions, in a free talk at the Avon Public Library at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday. The presentation is open to the public and is part of the High Country Speaker Series, hosted by Gore Range Natural Science School and Eagle Valley Library District.
In her presentation, “Seeing Shifts: Ecology and Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains,” Langmaid will share her recent adventures exploring the scientific stories and experiences of prominent mountain scientists who study the effects of climate change on plants and animals from New Mexico to Montana.
Over the course of her many years living in the Eagle Valley, Langmaid says she began to notice more and more ecological changes that she felt might be related to climate change but did not have scientific backing. She says she noticed changes in the timing of bird migrations.
“People would describe their own observations and ask me if I thought the changes were due to climate change,” she says. “I couldn't give them a clear answer. It was frustrating.”
In her presentation on Tuesday, Langmaid will share what she learned from a year's worth of research and meetings with ecologists who work in mountains throughout the West.
“My travels took me to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana,” she says. “I went to some beautiful and interesting places and actually saw how each ecologist collects his or her data. ... I absolutely think about global climate change differently now than I did before. The work has also brought up even bigger questions about what it means to be human at this moment in time.”
Langmaid is an environmental educator and natural historian who has lived in the Eagle Valley since 1969. She is the founder of Gore Range Natural Science School and she has taught environmental studies for Teton Science Schools' graduate program and for Prescott College's master of arts and PhD programs in sustainability education.
RSVP to the Avon Public Library at 970-949-6797, and for more information about the science school, please visit www.gorerange.org.
