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Climate Change Near You

An Author Talk by Dr. Rick Van Noy

Learn what sea level rise is, where it's happening, who it's impacting, and what we can do about it.

Dr. Richard “Rick” Van Noy will discuss how climate change and sea level rise impacts Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Learn who it effects, where it’s happening, and what we can do about it.  Special emphasis will be placed on water issues commonly experienced by residents in Virginia.

Rick Van Noy is the author of several books, including Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate Changed South (2019), one of Book Riot’s best environmental books for readers who want to save the plant; A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids with Nature Through the Seasons (2008), winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s 2009 Reed award for “outstanding writing on the Southern environment”; and Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place (2003). He teaches courses in the environmental humanities, creative nonfiction, professional writing, and American literature at Radford University. Find Rick online on his website: https://www.rickvannoy.com/