GLIN==> IISG News: Purdue Calumet Hosts Global Warming Seminar

[Irene Miles <miles@uiuc.edu>]

November 13, 2007

Purdue Calumet Hosts Global Warming Seminar

Purdue University Calumet is hosting a public seminar to
examine global warming Wednesday, November 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Calumet
Conference Center. The seminar will provide information on rising
temperatures, melting polar ice caps and mosquitoes moving their
habitats, as well as suggest ways people can combat global warming. The
talk is titled "Global Warming: The Choice Is Ours."

The presenter is Richard Treptow, chemistry professor at Chicago State
University, environmentalist, and member of the Sierra Club and the Union
of Concerned Scientists. He will discuss actions individuals, industry
and government can take to confront climate change. 

This seminar is the third in the four-part series, Go with the
Flow­Get to Know Your Coastal Resources. The series is intended to
raise awareness about water quality- and quantity-related
issues.

The series is being funded through a grant Purdue Calumet received from
the Lake Michigan Coastal Program, a division of the Indiana Department
of Natural Resources. Other sponsors are Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant,
Indiana Lake Michigan Coastal Program and the Indiana Department of
Natural Resources.

The Calumet Conference Center is located at the far south end of Purdue
Calumet?s campus, one-third mile north of Interstate 80/94, three blocks
east of Indianapolis Boulevard and south of 173rd Street. For more
information, contact Leslie Dorworth, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant aquatic
ecology specialist, at 219-989-2726 or
dorworth@calumet.purdue.edu.

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