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Firooza Pavri discusses changes in subarctic Iceland and Greenland-Zoom lecture via Portland Public Library

February 24, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

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The Camden Conference and the Portland Public Library are hosting Firooza Pavri on Zoom on Tuesday, February 24 at noon. She will discuss recent shifts in ice-cover and vegetation across regions of subarctic Iceland and Greenland.

Firooza Pavri serves as Director of the Muskie School of Public Service and is Professor of Geography at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining USM, she lived in the Midwest and received her M.A. in Geography & Planning at the University of Toledo and Ph.D. in Geography at the Ohio State University respectively.  She is originally from India and research and family take her back frequently. Firooza’s teaching and research is in the area of environmental geography, with a focus on society-environment interactions, natural resource conservation & policy, sustainable development, and geospatial technologies, including satellite imaging. More recently, her work has focused on sub-Arctic environments in Iceland and south Greenland. In Iceland, she uses satellite data to monitor changes to the Hofsjökull icecap in the central highlands over the past twenty-five years.  She also works as part of an interdisciplinary team focused on studying the Kujataa UNESCO World Heritage site and its surrounding in south Greenland. Her work in south Greenland is focused on understanding shifting land cover and vegetation patterns using satellite data from the past three decades.  Firooza’s research has been supported by NASA and the NSF, among others. She is co-author of two books, articles, and reports in her areas of expertise.

 

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February 24, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
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Camden Conference
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