Arctic Speaker Series – Maribeth Murray will discuss “The Arctic Institute of North America”

As Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America, Dr. Murray is poised to grow and develop the institute and the University of Calgary to a major player on the arctic research world stage. Dr. Murray will share her vision for the future of the institute and discuss opportunities for increasing our overall outreach, including researcher, student and community engagement. Bio: Maribeth Murray is a human ecologist and archaeologist with interests in climate/ecosystem/human interactions. She is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Her research is focused on the human dimensions of climate change, and human and marine system dynamics in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Her work emphasizes the integration of anthropological, climatological, historical, oceanographical, ecological, toxicological datasets to better understand how the Arctic functions as a system with people integral to that system. For more information please visit: http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/files/arctic/MMurray_poster_6March2014.pdf

Location:

Science B 148

Speaker:

Maribeth Murray, Executive Director, Arctic Institute of North America

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/arctic-speaker-series-maribeth-murray-will-discuss-arctic-institute-north-america