Join us on Thursday, February 2nd for a screening of River Out of Time, and discussion with Tom Minckley! The film documents a 70-day raft expedition down the Colorado River in 2019, in honor of the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s first settler expedition and running of the Grand Canyon in 1869. More information about the expedition can be found here.
The screening and discussion with Tom Minckley, leader of the expedition, will be held at 7.30pm in Lillis 182.
Tom Minckley is Professor of Geology and Geophysics at University of Wyoming, focuses on long-term environmental change, drought, disturbance and water in western North America. His research in arid lands ecology over the past 25 has focused on desert ecosystems and their response to changes in effective moisture. He has also studied forest ecosystems and their response to changing fire regimes. This body of work provides him with a long-term, millennial-scale, perspective on the vulnerability of western landscapes and water resources. In 2019, Tom led the Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition, in part commemorating John Wesley Powell’s journey 150 years previous. The 2019 expedition explored themes of western water over the last century and how we move into the future. He also served as co-editor of 2020 book Vision and Place: John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin (University of California Press). Tom is a University of Oregon alumni (paleoecology, geography).
