The Community Climate Workshop is a four-part workshop/seminar series focusing on basic climate science, impacts, policy, and solutions. Join us each Thursday (2/13, 2/20, 2/27, and 3/6) from 4-6PM, in-person at PSU.
The first two sessions will involve exploring on-line tools (e.g. interactive atlases, data viewers, climate models, and infographics) to help participants understand the science and use these tools to do their own climate research. The last two sessions involve exploring options for addressing the climate crisis locally, nationally, and internationally.
What participants will get out of this experience:
- Experience using some key online tools to better understand the science and do their own research.
- Finding out more about the range of options available for acting on climate issues and discerning where one fits in these options.
- A chance to have cross-generational conversations about climate issues and explore how to take action intergenerationally.
The Instructor / facilitator: Frank Granshaw PhD
Dr. Granshaw is a veteran geoscience instructor who retired from Portland Community College in 2015 and now teaches part-time for geology and university studies at Portland State. At PSU he has regularly taught Global Environmental Change, a survey course in climate science and policy, and has authored an open source resource manual The Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Climate Science and Action that is used as a text in the course. He is also active with several local and national groups doing climate education and advocacy work that includes being a member of observer delegations to UN climate meetings.