Friends of the Goodnow Library present an illustrated talk with Peter Alden entitled “The High Arctic Today.”
Peter Alden is a world-renowned naturalist and author of the National Audubon Society's Regional Field Guide Series. Mr. Alden’s illustrated talk will explain how man-induced global climate chaos has focused much attention on the Polar regions. These regions may incur swift changes that could alter atmospheric and ocean currents in warmer climes. The audience will learn how the Arctic and Antarctic differ; how the polar bears are doing; what the local peoples' lives are like, and how the changes in climate patterns have already affected them.
Mr. Alden worked as a field lecturer and naturalist on a huge ice-breaker that sailed the Northwest Passage from Russia, over Alaska to Baffin Island, and then to Ellesmere Island and northwest Greenland.
