GLIN==> IL-IN Sea Grant News: Seminar Series Looks at Coastal Resources, Climate Change

[Irene Miles <miles@uiuc.edu>]

SEPT. 10, 2007 
 
SOURCE:  Leslie Dorworth (219) 989-2726;
dorworth@calumet.purdue.edu
CONTACT:  Irene Miles (217) 333-8055; miles@uiuc.edu

Purdue Calumet Seminar Series Looks at Coastal Resources, Climate Change 

The first of a four-part series of seminars
intended to raise awareness of land use practices on Lake Michigan?s
coastal resources is hosted by Purdue University Calumet on Wednesday,
September 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the University?s Calumet Conference
Center.
            
Wednesday?s initial seminar, Calumet Beginnings, in the Go with the
Flow--Get to Know Our Indiana Coastal Resources series, will focus on
the establishment of the Calumet area, how Lake Michigan was created and
how it has changed naturally due to environmental and man-made
influences. Kenneth J. Schoon, historian, Indiana University Northwest
professor and author of the book, Calumet Beginnings, will talk
about the evolution and settlement of northwest Indiana. Through
historical photographs and maps, he will demonstrate how waves of Lake
Michigan created three ancient shorelines.
            
Other seminars in the series are:
·         Oct. 10, ?Planning for
Growth and Protecting Resources?
·         Nov. 14, ?Global
Warming: The Choice Is Ours?
·         Jan. 9, ?The Impact of
Changing Climate and Precipitation in the Great Lakes Basin
            
Each seminar begins at 6:30 p.m. at The Calumet Conference Center.
            
?All of the seminars intend to show how we as a community may impact the
Lake Michigan Watershed from how we use land to how our daily activities
may influence global climate change,? said Leslie Dorworth, aquatic
ecology extension specialist for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College
Program.
            
The progressive series is funded through a grant from the Lake Michigan
Coastal Program, a division of the Indiana Department of Natural
Resources. Other sponsors include Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, Indiana
Lake Michigan Coastal Program and the Indiana Department of Natural
Resources.

Irene Miles
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant
386 NSRC
1101 W. Peabody Dr.
Urbana, Il 61801
(217) 333-8055
FAX (217) 333-8046