Please join us at Town Hall Seattle on the evening of Tuesday, April 23. The five-decades of research of a seabird colony on Cooper Island, Alaska has provided clear and unsettling evidence of the extent and rapid pace of Arctic climate change. The island’s colony of Mandt’s Black Guillemot, studied annually since 1975, decreased from over two...
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2019 Seattle Update – March 26
Tuesday March 26 at Seattle’s Swedish Club Reception at 6 pm with presentation at 7 pm Reception at 6 pm with talk at 7 pm The Cooper Island Black Guillemot colony was first recognized as a monitor of a warming climate in 2002, the 23rd year of the study. Decreasing sea ice in a rapidly melting Arctic...