Sustainable Futures Speaker Series

February 13, 2018

As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Dr. M Jackson will present "The Secret Lives of Icelandic Glaciers."

Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, and 2017 National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer M Jackson studies and writes about glaciers and climate change. She earned a doctorate from the University of Oregon in geography and glaciology, where she examined how climate change transformed people and ice communities in Iceland. A veteran three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar in both Turkey and Iceland, M Jackson currently serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador, an Arctic Expert for the National Geographic Society, and international advisor for the Circumpolar Observatory. Jackson holds a Master's of Science degree from the University of Montana, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia. She is the author of While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change (2015) and The Secret Lives of Icelandic Glaciers (2018), and is currently working on In Tangible Ice, a multi-year project examining the socio-physical dimensions of glacier retreat in near-glacier communities within all eight circumpolar nations.

The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is presented by Humboldt State University’s Environment & Community Graduate Program, the Schatz Energy Research Center, and the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.

The presentation will take place Thursday, February 15, at 5:30 p.m. in Founders Hall 118.

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