Speaker at KWBGS 1/28/2017 – note date change!

Sat. January 28th at 1:30pm “Sea Level Rise and Natural Solutions for the Florida Keys”  will be the topic presented by Chris Bergh, South Florida Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy.  Chris will cover the impacts of sea level rise on the Keys’ natural and built environment and how natural systems, from coral reefs to hardwood hammocks, can help people cope with sea level rise and its root cause:  global climate change. Meet at the Chapel in the KW Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden on College Road – turn at the light on U.S. 1.   Please note this is a postponement from the previously announced date.  Free for members and students; $5 for non-members.  Call 305-296-1504 for details.

Professional Biography for Chris Bergh, The Nature Conservancy – South Florida Conservation Director

Chris Bergh was raised in the Florida Keys and studied environmental conservation in Florida and Arizona prior to beginning a career that has run the gamut from nature preserve management to urban conservation strategy development. In 2005 he helped initiate the Florida Reef Resilience Program, an interdisciplinary partnership among coral reef managers, scientists, other NGO’s and businesses designed to help Florida’s reefs and reef-dependent people cope with climate change impacts, and he has overseen the Conservancy’s partnership-based coral reef restoration efforts. He serves on the Monroe County (Florida Keys) Climate Change Advisory Committee, the Southeast and Caribbean Climate Community of Practice Steering Committee and the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact’s Staff Steering Committee. In 2013 he helped launch and now leads the Compact’s Shoreline Resilience Working Group which is focused on identifying opportunities for natural or nature-based coastal defenses for one of the United States’ most vulnerable regions with respect to hurricanes and sea level rise. He led the Conservancy’s early and ongoing work on sea level rise vulnerability analysis for the Florida Keys and is overseeing the development of on-line decision support tools that help people in the Keys and Southeast Florida’s urban areas look beyond their vulnerability to the nature-based solutions for reducing that vulnerability

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