Arctic Research Seminar Series
Arctic Rese
arch Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)
Date/Time: Friday
, 11 May from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET
Presentation Title: "The Face of Climate Change in the Arctic: The National Media's Role in P ublic Disengagement"
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The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) announces the next Arctic Research Seminar featuring E lizabeth Arnold, University of Alaska Anchorage & Harvard Shorenstein C enter Fellow. The event will be held in the ARCUS D.C. office at 1201 New Y ork Avenue, NW Washington D.C. on Friday, 11 May 2018 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. This seminar will also be available as a webinar live-stream for those unable to attend in person.
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The ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar Series brings leading Arctic resear chers to Washington, D.C. to share the latest findings and what they mean f or decision-making. These seminars will be of interest to federal agency of ficials, congressional staff, non-governmental organizations, associations, and the public.
This seminar titled “The Face of Climate Change in t he Arctic: The National Media's Role in Public Disengagement” will focus on Arnold’s own experience and current research of media coverage on the huma n impacts of climate change in the Arctic.
Elizabeth Arnold is a form er National Public Radio (NPR) Political Correspondent, an Associate Profes sor of Journalism at the University of Alaska, and the producer of arcticprofiles. com. For twenty years she was a familiar voice on Morning Edition and A ll Things Considered, and a regular presence on PBS Washington Week, coveri ng Congress, the White House, and the American West. Arnold has received nu merous awards, including a duPont Columbia Silver Baton and the Dirksen Awa rd for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. Over the last decade, she has r eported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic. She is currently a Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy where she is resea rching the role of the press in effectively communicating climate change.
This event is a brown-bag lunch that will be held in the ARCUS D.C. of fice (1201 New York Avenue, NW Washington D.C. Fourth Floor). Cookies and b everages will be provided.
A live webinar is also available to those unable to attend in person. Instructions for accessing the event online wil l be sent to webinar registrants prior to the event.
For those of you on Twitter, we also invite you to join us in live-tweeting the event using the hashtag #arcuswebinar.
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