April 22, 2008
featuring
Pamela
Emerson, Climate Change Specialist, City of Seattle
Climate
Change and What You Can Do
Come hear Pamela Emerson,
of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and the Environment, talk about
Seattle's Climate Action Now (CAN) campaign. This campaign was
recently launched to address the need to get individuals aware and
involved in how to respond to climate change. Pam will talk about how the
City developed the campaign, what the campaign is, how it's working so far, and
who they are working with to bring this important call to action to every
Seattle citizen.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm (light
refreshments & networking before our speaker begins at 7:00)
Location: Phinney Neighborhood
Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle in Room 3.
Go to
www.phinneycenter.org for directions.
Please RSVP to
awep@awep.org if you plan to join us for this exciting and timely
event.
Events Already Held
December 13, 2007
AWEP Holiday
Social
An evening of good food,
holiday music, and socializing with other AWEP members. Join us for this
combined networking opportunity and holiday event. CHEERS!
October 10, 2007
featuring
A joint
event presented by the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association for Women
Geoscientists (AWG) and the Association of Women in Environmental Professions
(AWEP)
Selection and
Use of Hydrogeological Consultants and Information
This event features a panel
of four Washington registered hydrogeologists who are members of the sponsoring
organizations. The panel participants and the topics that will be discussed
include: Heather Vick PG, PHg - Introduction and panel moderator. Anne Udaloy
PG, PHg of Udaloy Environmental -- When and what to look for in selecting a
hydrogeological consultant. Suzanne Dudziak PG, PHg of Greylock Consulting LLC
-- Details matter: drilling methods, well installation and data collection.
Marcia Knadle PG, PHg U.S. EPA Region 10 -- Use and misuse of hydrogeological
information -- common pitfalls.
April 12, 2007
featuring
Lara Whitely
Binder, University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group
and
Kelly McCaffrey, Washington Water Trust
Managing Our
Water Resources and the Related Impacts of Climate Change
Lara Whitely Binder will
speak about the potentially significant changes to Pacific Northwest snowpack
and streamflow that climate change is expected to bring. Research from the
Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington finds that average annual
temperature is projected to increase 2 degrees F by the decade of the 2020s and
3 degrees F by the decade of the 2040s. Warmer winter temperatures lead to more
winter precipitation falling as rain rather than snow and contributes to lower
snowpack, higher winter streamflows, earlier spring snowmelt, and lower summer
streamflows in many PNW river basins. Lara will discuss these and other
findings about PNW climate change, implications for water resource management,
and preparing for climate change.
Kelly McCaffrey will speak about Washington Water Trust (WWT), its approach to
restoring instream flows, how we all must adjust given water supply
uncertainties and decreases, how WWT's is even more important in the face of
water supply uncertainties, rivers), and how, given our current legal structure
of water rights, drastic incentives or drastic societal response may be needed
to change the status quo.
November 7, 2006
featuring
Jane A.
Hedges, Program Manager for Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program
The Cleanup of Hanford Nuclear
Reservation
September 20,
2006
featuring
Amee
Quiriconi, Inventor of Squak Mountain Stone
The development and marketing of Squak
Mountain Stone Sustainable Building Products
June 13, 2006
featuring
Andrea
Ramage, Director of Sustainable Solutions, CH2M Hill, Inc.
SUSTAINABILITY: Challenges,
Opportunities, and Commitments
