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Meeting, Tuesday, October 14, 2008: Martin Rose, "Looking Climate Change in the Eye" « Arctic Circle »
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Auteur: John Bennett
Posté: 2008-10-06 08:05:58
Modified On: 2008-10-06 08:05:58
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THE ARCTIC CIRCLE


459th Meeting



Tuesday, October 14, 2008



Martin Rose



LOOKING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EYE



In the past summer the British Council took 28 high school students from Canada and other parts of the world to the Arctic to look at the effects of climate change and to experiment with a fusion of artistic and scientific analysis. The Cape Farewell Youth Voyage sailed from Iceland to Iqaluit via Greenland. The students were accompanied by artists and scientists, as well as specialist high school teachers, who mentored them through a dramatically successful mental and emotional voyage that paired a scientist and an artist in leading teams studying geomorphology, climatology, biogeography and oceanography. Martin Rose will also talk about the vision of David Buckland, founder of the Cape Farewell project, which seeks to explore the language and imagination needed to explain the urgency of action on climate change to a global audience.

After reading history and, later, Oriental Studies at Oxford University, Martin Rose worked in Africa and the Middle East as a publisher and a banker before joining the British Council in 1988. In addition to several spells in London, he worked for the British Council in Baghdad, Rome and Brussels before being appointed Director of the British Council in Ottawa in 2006, where his main preoccupation has been education work on climate change.

This meeting is the first of the 2008-09 season of The Arctic Circle. It will be held in the Astra Lounge on the entrance level of the RCAF Officers Mess, 158 Gloucester Street (just east of Bank Street), Ottawa. Parking is available on the street and in nearby parking lots. There is a charge of $3.00 for evening use of the parking lot in the same block as the Mess. The meeting begins at 2000 hrs and the bar will be available from 1930 hrs. As always, guests are welcome.



Next meetings:

Nov 10 Ron Wade on hovercraft trials in Tuktoyaktuk in the 1960's

Dec 9 Jack Ives on Skaftafell, Iceland





Thomas Frisch

Secretary

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