Environmental Lecture Series: Global Environmental Challenges
"Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Concord" will be presented by Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology at Boston University.
Primack's research currently focuses on the impacts of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds in Massachusetts. The main geographical focus of his research is Concord, Massachusetts, due to the availability of extensive flowering records kept by Henry David Thoreau in the 1850s. His team is also using Concord as a living laboratory to determine which species are the most sensitive indicators of climate change, how invasive species are affecting plant communities, and the population dynamics of native plant species.
