Oct. 30: Minnesota State Mankato Hosting Expert on Himalayan Melting Glaciers

Friday, October 30, 2020
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Virtual Event

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Geography is holding a fall 2020 Geography Colloquium that features events from 3-4:15 p.m. each Friday during the fall. The events are available online on Zoom and are open and free to all.

The geography colloquium, the longest-running speaker series at the University, began Sept. 18 and will run each Friday (except Nov. 27) through Dec. 4.

This week’s geography colloquium subject is “Notes from the Field: Some Recent Geologic and Climate Change Impacts on Nepal’s Glaciers” which will be presented Friday, Oct. 30 from 3-4:15 p.m. by Alton C. Byers, senior research associate and faculty at Institute of Arctic Alpine Research.

Friday’s event is available on Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/99070205470. The passcode is 518731.

This presentation will review the results of recent research regarding the impacts of three geologic and climate change-related events upon Nepal’s glaciers and glaciers lakes.

A complete list of this fall’s geography colloquium events is available at https://sbs.mnsu.edu/academics/geography/geography-colloquia/.

For more information about the geography colloquium, please contact Don Friend, professor in the Department of Geography, by phone at 507-389-2618 or by email at donald.friend@mnsu.edu.

The Department of Geography is part of Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,297 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.