Live Dec. 11 Facebook Q&A on Alaska’s changing environment
December 10, 2019
International Arctic Research Center chief scientist John Walsh will answer questions
about environmental changes in Alaska and the Arctic during a live Facebook Q&A session
Wednesday, Dec. 11, from the American Geophysical Union 2019 fall meeting.
The event begins at 10:10 a.m. Alaska time, 2:10 p.m. Eastern, on the University of
Alaska Fairbanks Facebook page. Those who cannot dial in live can submit questions
in advance at http://bit.ly/askascientist-jw.
Walsh is one of 10 University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers who contributed to NOAA’s
14th Arctic Report Card released Dec. 10. He is also a co-author of IARC’s “Alaska’s
Changing Environment” report.
According to NOAA, some highlights of this year’s report card include “near-record
high air and ocean temperatures, and melt of the Greenland ice sheet, low sea-ice
extents, and shifts in the distribution of commercially valuable marine species.”
To read NOAA’s 14th Arctic Report Card, visit https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2019. To read IARC’s “Alaska’s Changing Environment,” visit http://bit.ly/iarc-changing-enviro.
MEDIA CONTACT: Marmian Grimes, 907-460-4750, mlgrimes@alaska.edu.
View the recording here.