The Discover Science Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Reno hosts environmental journalist Andrew Revkin (shown at the North Pole) on Sept. 8.
The Discover Science Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Reno enters its 12th season by welcoming leading environmental journalist Andrew Revkin as the first lecturer Sept. 8.
Revkin is one of America’s most honored, experienced and innovative journalists focused on environmental and human sustainability. Revkin has written on global environmental change and risk for more than 38 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican – mostly for The Times.
Revkin, now building a Columbia University Climate School initiative on communication and sustainability, will offer fresh strategies for effectively communicating climate risks and building a more resilient, enduring relationship between people and their dynamic, fast-changing planet – and each other.
He has lectured worldwide at venues ranging from dozens of university campuses to corporate retreats, the Vatican to the Aspen Ideas Festival.
He began reporting on climate change in the 1980s in magazines and never stopped. Revkin has won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship and Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. He has written books on the dawn of the Anthropocene, the history of humanity’s relationship with weather, the changing Arctic, global warming and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication.
Registration is required for the lecture on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Davidson Mathematics and Science Center’s Redfield Auditorium. Free parking will be available on the fourth and fifth levels of the Whalen Parking Complex.
The lecture series also produces the Discover Science podcast where subscribers can listen to in-depth conversations between the visiting lecturers and College of Science faculty and students. The Discover Science podcast is available on most podcast listening applications, including Spotify, Apple podcasts, Anchor FM and more. Corbitt will be featured on the Discover Science podcast.
Upcoming speakers in the series include exoplanetary scientist Sarah Horst on Dec. 1, American Nobel-laureate physicist David Wineland, on March 2 and pathologist and children’s book author Eva Pell on April 20.
Past speakers in the series include astrophysicists Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson; Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; and Bill Nye the Science Guy. More information can be found on the Discover Science website. The series was founded by the College of Science in 2010, with the goal of bringing the country's top scientists to the University to share their knowledge, research and wisdom with the community.
"Science encompasses a wonderfully diverse collection of explorations into the unknown. We invite science lovers and the science-curious to join us and experience the extent of the science universe as the best scientists on the planet visit the University of Nevada, Reno for our Discover Science Lecture Series," said Jeff Thompson, University provost and founder of the Discover Science Lecture Series.
Mike Wolterbeek is a communications officer at the University of Nevada, Reno.
