Presenter: Dr. Alice Jones, Chair Emerita, EKU Department of Physics, Geosciences & Astronomy

Wendell Berry once said,“Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence–that is to wish to preserve all of its humble households and neighborhoods.” Thinking about climate change through the nested hierarchy of waterways and watersheds—-the tiniest backyard tributaries merging into larger and larger streams and rivers at the regional and continental scale–helps us reduce the scale of a global challenge to a neighborhood and community scale. We’ll examine global and regional climate predictions in the Kentucky River and its nested tributary watersheds to better understand how a changing climate will affect both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in and around our “humble households and neighborhoods.”

This program is part of the Bluegrass Biodiversity Seminar Series, which offers free evening presentations on Kentucky’s natural history and biodiversity in the historic Trail’s End Lodge.