Climate Change & Birds Talk
Saturday, April 12, 2025
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Dungeness River Nature Center – Rainshadow Hall
Price: $20
Presenter: Frank Lowenstein
Climate change shifts the timing and availability of the preferred foods of some bird species, results in more frequent and intense extreme weather events, and changes the suitability of whole regions for wintering and breeding habitat. How have those changes already impacted bird species, what changes are likely coming, and what can we do to help birds adapt? DRNC’s executive director Frank Lowenstein will tie his global climate expertise to the local avian fauna and expected climate shifts here in the Olympic Peninsula and surrounding regions. He’ll address how physics, geology, and astronomy manifest in the lives of birds, and the potential and limits of human climate resilience interventions on behalf of birds.
Prior to arriving in Sequim and assuming leadership of the Dungeness River Nature Center, Frank had served as the global climate adaptation leader for The Nature Conservancy and as a senior fellow in U.S. Department of State’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. He has partnered with the World Bank on the development of predictive tools for climate extremes, and developed new approaches for sustainable forestry in an era of climate change. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Harvard University and a Master’s in Botany from the University of Vermont, and teaches on nature based solutions to climate change in Harvard University’s Master’s of Sustainability program through Harvard Extension School.