The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change with Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick
Thursday, June 6, 6:30pm, Appalachian Laboratory (Frostburg, MD)
On Thursday, June 6, at 6:30pm at the Appalachian Laboratory, as part of the Watershed Moments Community Learning Series, Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick, recently featured in interviews with CNN, the New York Times, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Scientific American, and USA Today, presented The Past, Present and Future of Climate Change. During the presentation, Fitzpatrick offered an introduction to how Earth’s climate has changed in the past and why scientists are concerned about the future.
Matt Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Change & Biodiversity Lab at the Appalachian Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Frostburg, MD. He is a former aerospace engineer who studies how natural systems respond to changes in climate over short and long time periods. Fitzpatrick holds degrees in engineering from Penn State, a Masters in environmental science from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Tennessee.
We Need Your Feedback!
The Appalachian Laboratory's Dr. Cat Stylinski and her research team are looking for important feedback on the online mapping tool designed by Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick and his colleagues. We encourage you to explore Dr. Fitzpatrick’s “Future Urban Climate Online Mapping Tool” at https://fitzlab.shinyapps.io/
Once you have done so, we would appreciate your feedback by answering a few questions at http://tinyurl.com/