{"id":6509,"date":"2017-05-01T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2017-05-01T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T21:51:18","slug":"on-campus-event-reporting-from-the-mongolian-glacier-that-holds-the-secret-to-climate-change-friday-may-5-12-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/on-campus-event-reporting-from-the-mongolian-glacier-that-holds-the-secret-to-climate-change-friday-may-5-12-130\/","title":{"rendered":"On Campus Event: Reporting from the Mongolian glacier that holds the secret to climate change, Friday May 5 12-1:30"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Reporting from the Mongolian glacier that holds the secret to climate change<br \/>\nA conversation over lunch with environmental journalist Kevin Stark<\/h2>\n<p class=\"time\"><span class=\"dt-m\">Friday, May May <\/span>5<span class=\"dt-y\">, <\/span>12:00\u00a0PM\u00a0\u2013\u00a01:30\u00a0PM<br \/>\nES Common Room, Adams Hall<\/p>\n<p>Bring your lunch and meet environmental journalist Kevin Stark to find out what we can learn about\u00a0climate change from a\u00a0Mongolian glacier.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Stark is a journalist with Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datareportinglab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Data Reporting Lab<\/a>. His focus is environment, science, energy and climate change. \u00a0Stark traveled with researchers to the Altai mountains of Western Mongolia and wrote about how climate scientists were dating the demise of <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/trekking-potanin-glacier-mongolia-mystery-climate-change-5240b435f007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">last major Ice Age<\/a> and finding a <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/dating-the-petroglyphs-of-the-mongolian-altai-6aa8bf24b4dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">precise age for Mongolian petroglyphs<\/a>. He reported on a crisis in Indiana where 1,100 people were <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/behind-the-scenes-of-east-chicagos-housing-crisis-9e88136d195e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">living in a toxic public housing complex built on top of a defunct lead smelter<\/a>. He has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/sfpublicpress.org\/news\/searise\/2015-07\/interactive-map-a-baywide-building-boom-threatened-by-rising-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">data visualization<\/a> of how sea level rise would hit some of the Bay Area&#8217;s hottest new development projects from the Warrior&#8217;s arena to Facebook HQ. He <a href=\"http:\/\/sfpublicpress.org\/news\/searise\/2017-04\/by-weakening-law-developers-shift-sea-rise-burden-to-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">broke the story<\/a> of how an building industry lawsuit convinced the California Supreme court that developers need not consider the effects of climate change on new real estate projects. He&#8217;s a current fellow with Northwestern University&#8217;s Social Justice News Nexus, and an alumnus of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting.\u00a0 His work has appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine, the Chicago Reporter, the Chicago Reader, the San Francisco Public Press, Earth Island Journal, and other places.<\/p>\n<div>ES will provide gelato and cookies<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6510\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/files\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Stark.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting from the Mongolian glacier that holds the secret to climate change A conversation over lunch with environmental journalist Kevin Stark Friday, May May 5, 12:00\u00a0PM\u00a0\u2013\u00a01:30\u00a0PM ES Common Room, Adams Hall Bring your lunch and meet environmental journalist Kevin Stark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/events\/on-campus-event-reporting-from-the-mongolian-glacier-that-holds-the-secret-to-climate-change-friday-may-5-12-130\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-on-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/environmental-studies-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}