Climate Change and the Evolving Arctic

Friday, April 21, 2017
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from College and University Educators Workshops

Charles F. Doran, Andrew W. Mellon professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies; Sherri Goodman, senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Katherine Hardin, senior director of energy at IHS Markit; and Ronald LaBrec, assistant superintendent at the United States Coast Guard Academy, discuss climate change and the evolving arctic, as a part of the 2017 College and University Educators Workshop. 

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