Global warming presentation scheduled
NDSU’s Natural Resources Management program is sponsoring professor Allan Ashworth, who recently traveled to the South Pole, and explorer Lonnie Dupre will be holding a presentation from their expeditions.
“In Search of Global Warming: Questions and Answers from Arctic and Antarctic Expeditions” is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Saturday in Loftsgard Hall, Room 114.
Dupre will be showing her modified kayak-sled and Ashworth’s trips to Antarctica will be on display.
During the past 20 years, Dupre has traveled by dog team, skis and kayak more than 14,000 miles throughout the polar regions.
In 1991, Dupre made the first west-to-east winter transit of Canada’s Northwest Passage — 3,000 miles by dog team, according to Sadie Anderson.
Dupre, along with Australian John Hoelscher, became the first team to circumnavigate Greenland’s 6,500-mile coastline in 2001.
After receiving the coveted “Rolex Award for Enterprise” in 2004, Dupre and Eric Larsen set out on their “One World Expedition,” completing the first summer trek to the North Pole and reaching it on July 1.
More information about Dupre and “One World Expedition” can be found at www.oneworldexpedition.com.
Ashworth is chair of the United States National Committee for INQUA, an international organization for researchers investigating the causes and consequences of natural climate for the past 2 million years of Earth’s history.
Ashworth’s primary research interests are in paleontology and stratigraphy.
He is currently working on the paleoecology of a terrestrial fossil assemblage from the late Tertiary Sirius Group in the Transantarctic Mountains, about 500 kilometers from the South Pole.
The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by refreshments.