Global Warming Changes the Northern Landscape

The hot breath of global warming has now touched some of the coldest northern regions of world, turning the frozen landscape into mush as temperatures soar 15 degrees C. above normal. Entire hillsides, sometimes more than a kilometre long, simply let go and slid like a vast green carpet into valleys and rivers on Melville Island in Canada's northwest Arctic region of Nunavut this summer. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including (click on names for contact information):

Stephanie Pfirman - Associate Professor and Chair of Environmental Science, Barnard College - Pfirman has served as an oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, a staff scientist with the U.S. House of Representatives, and a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund. She coordinated the exhibition "Global Warming," developed by the American Museum of Natural History and the EDF.

Kevin Harrison - Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, McDaniel College - Dr. Harrison is an expert in global warming, climate change, environmental policy, air quality, water quality, and pollution.

Richard Wallace - Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, Ursinus College - Wallace's research interests include federal policies and programs for the protection of biological diversity in the U.S. and the behavior of governmental and nongovernmental organizations under conservation mandates. Currently, he serves as vice president of the Social Science Working Group of the international Society for Conservation Biology, on the executive council of the Society for the Policy Sciences and on the editorial board of the journal Policy Sciences.