{"id":3261,"date":"2013-09-20T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3261"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:58","slug":"dr-richard-primack","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/dr-richard-primack\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Richard Primack"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h2 id=\"walden-warming-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-the-plants-birds-and-butterflies-of-thoreaus-concord\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walden Warming: the Impact of Climate Change on the Plants, Birds and Butterflies of Thoreau&#8217;s Concord<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Richard Primack, Boston University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty Host: Root Gorelick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservation Biologist \u2022 Climate change \u2022 Leaf senescence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thoreau was a climate change scientist! For the past 10 years, Professor Richard Primack (Boston University) and his colleagues have been using Thoreau\u2019s records and other data sources to document the dramatically earlier flowering and leafing out times of plants, the earlier ice out at Walden Pond, and the more variable response of migratory birds. And most noteworthy, plants in Concord are also changing in abundance due to a warming climate. While primarily a scientific study, Primack\u2019s talk will be supported by beautiful photos and numerous quotes from Thoreau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work has received exceptional wide attention in the popular media ( <a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/primack\/news.html\">http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/primack\/news.html<\/a> ), most recently in the New York Times, and demonstrates the relevance of Thoreau\u2019s legacy to contemporary issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3261","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2013-11-08T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2013-11-08T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Root Gorelick","cu_event_email":"root.gorelick@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}