2/28: Fire and Climate Change in Brazil

NASA image of fires in Brazil
February 28, 3:30 p.m.

Department of Geography, Guggenheim Room 205

Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.

This panel of scholars will put Brazil’s recent period of forest fires into a larger historic, political perspective.

Organizer: Mara Goldman, Associate Professor, Geography

Moderator: Joe Bryan, Associate Professor, Geography

Panelists:

Peter Newton 

  • Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program

Colleen Scanlan-Lyons

  • Project Director, Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

Marcos Steuernagel

  • Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance

Myanna Lahsen

  • Associate Professor, Wageningen University