At a glance
“Understanding the Marcellus Shale,” a lecture by Dr. Katherine Klingensmith, professor of biology and environmental science at Keuka College, is the second event in the New Horizons Forum fall series. It will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 11 in room 215 of the Engineering Technology Building on the ASC campus from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and is open to the public.
“Understanding the Marcellus Shale,” a lecture by Dr. Katherine Klingensmith, professor of biology and environmental science at Keuka College, is the second event in the New Horizons Forum fall series. It will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 11 in room 215 of the Engineering Technology Building on the ASC campus from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and is open to the public.
Professor Klingensmith has degrees in oceanography, limnology, and plant physiological ecology. Her research and publications have focused on carbon and nitrogen cycling in arctic lakes, floodplain soils, and agricultural ecosystems. Dr. Klingensmith’s recent sabbatical focused on ancient climate and local Devonian plants native to the local area more than 350 million years ago. Scholar, area resident, and engaged citizen, “Kasey” Klingensmith and her husband, Mark, own and operate a small organic farm outside the village of Alfred. Over the years she has given numerous talks and workshops on organic gardening.
During this past year, Dr. Klingensmith has been researching the ecological effects of high-volume, slick-water, hydraulic fracturing. An Alfred Town Board committee led by Dr. Klingensmith recently made recommendations regarding unconventional gas drilling (hydrofracking). The Board will soon vote on laws affecting hydrofracking in the Town and Village of Alfred.
Forum director and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Joe Flynn, notes that the evening continues New Horizon’s interest in this vital issue. “Recoverable gas deposits locked for millions of years in the Marcellus Shale and the deeper Utica Shale underlie the areas where most of our faculty, students, and their families reside. “Fracking” has raised local, national, and global issues whose magnitude is difficult to imagine and consequences impossible to ignore.”
This event is co-sponsored by the http://conf2011.aashe.org/
The New Horizons Forum is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences and offers programs which showcase scholarly, creative, and public service work currently engaged in by faculty, students, professional staff, and invited guests. It is guided by a campus-wide team of advisers whose goal is to enrich the intellectual life of the institution.