Join the Bowdoin Outing Club, Earth and Oceanographic Science Department and Visual Arts Department for an interdisciplinary discussion with local Maine artist and glaciologist, Jill Pelto, about constructing effective ways to communicate science through art. Pelto has experience assisting with research on various mountain glaciers in Washington and British Columbia, in the Dry Valleys and Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, over the rolling hills and carved cirques of the Falkland Islands, and around the aqua lakes and ochre mountains of New Zealand. She not only creates artwork about the research in which she is involved but incorporates a wide range of climate change-related data into her pieces. These works aim to raise awareness about relevant environmental topics--melting glaciers, rising sea level, threatened species--and ultimately inspire people to take action. Lecture at 7:30pm in the Roux Lantern, followed by a reception in The Schwartz at 8:30pm.
