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Andrew Revkin

In conversation with Healy Hamilton

Tuesday, April 27, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

An award winning journalist for The New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin reports on the global environment in print and on his New York Times online blog. Dot Earth focuses on the projection that by 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion people. Those additional billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet's limits. He has spent over 25 years covering environmental and social subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon and the troubled relationship of climate science and politics. He was also part of the Times' Pulitzer-winning "Nation Challenged" team and a contributor to the best-selling book drawn from that coverage. He previously served as a senior editor of Discover, a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. He has lectured frequently on writing and the environment at colleges across the country, from the University of Utah to Yale University. He has also penned several books to include The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World.

Healy Hamilton serves as the Head of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences. In order to support conservation planning on a climate-altered Earth, Hamilton turns to the specimen collections at the Academy to study the effects of climate change on biodiversity.

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