September 17, 2020    7pm meeting is a ZOOM meeting

Please RSVP to Carolyn Gire 

via email carogire@hawaii.rr.com by Sunday, 

September 13^th  5:00 PM to be added to the list for this meeting. 

Guests are  welcome, and please include their names and email 

addresses with your RSVP.  For security and privacy 

purposes, the Zoom’s "waiting room" feature will be used and

 only individuals on the list will be admitted.  All confirmed

 attendees will receive an email confirmation on Monday,

 September 14^th with the Zoom link to access the meeting on

 Thursday.

Please contact Carolyn with any questions or to schedule a test run with Zoom ahead of 

time. Mahalo!  Stay safe everyone and please take care.     

Sep 17, 2020 — 7 pm        by guest Dave Beilman

Biogeography and Climate Change

     UHM Associate Professor, Dr. Beilman, will discuss decades of work as a geographer & environmental scientist, covering his fieldwork in Russia, the Canadian Arctic, and Antarctica. As Dr. Beilman explains: “The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the Earth’s fastest warming regions and is experiencing rapid ecological change. During a five week research cruise in March 2020, he visited sites along four hundred kilometers of the western Peninsula studying plants and soils. He will describe his work using a drone to observe the continent’s surface & discuss the implications for changes in the Southern Ocean, marine ecosystems & plant growth on land.”
     Dr Beilman holds a PhD from UCLA, a MSc from the University of Alberta in Canada, followed by post-doctoral study at Queen’s University in Belfast, UK. He was born & raised in western Canada & spent his early days “appreciating the serene northern forests & majestic Rocky Mountains of western North America.” His PhD dissertation was on carbon hotspots in West Siberia, Russia.