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From: Don Begley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 2, 2008 9:15:16 PM MDT
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Subject: sfx News: From Greenland to Electioneering
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Melting Ice and Rhetoric:
October 3: Greenland's Melting Ice
on Frito Friday (7:00 pm)
October 8: Unwinding the Rhetoric
(6:30 pm)
What Happens if Greenland Turns Green?
Greenland is the world's largest island, and the Greenland Ice Sheet
(GrIS) is the Northern Hemisphere's largest terrestrial permanent ice-
and snow covered area. Scientists have been monitoring the ice sheet
for decades and are discovering that the ice appears to be melting. If
true, what will a green Greenland mean for the rest of the world?
Dr. Sebastian H. Mernild, a post-doc fellow at the International
Arctic Research Center and Water & Environmental Research Center at
the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is in Santa Fe this weekend. The
internationally renowned researcher has agreed to join Frito Friday,
October 5, for a casual and informative discussion on his research on
the Greenland Ice Sheet in a climate perspective.
Dr. Mernild discusses the future perspectives for this scenario at
Frito Friday. He says, "Ice mass and snow cover serve as water
reservoirs that are highly vulnerable to ongoing climatic variations
and change. The Arctic is undergoing a system-wide response to
climatic change, and the effect of a warmer and wetter climate on
terrestrial cryospheric and hydrological processes and their
components have already been documented."
Click here for more information on Dr. Mernild's work. Join Dr.
Mernild at 7:00 at Santa Fe Complex to learn more about his
perspective on the future of Greenland's ice and the world's coastlines.
Swimming Against the Flow (October 7, 6:30 pm)
Presidential debates; vice presidents, too; ads, emails and web pages:
claims and counterclaims abound. Come to this second workshop at Santa
Fe Complex to learn how to look beyond the scripts and see what is
really going on this this fall's campaigns.
From soap to soapboxes, ads, debaters and talking heads work overtime
to control or influence the flow of information available to voters.
Learn how to swim against the flow, by navigating upstream through the
flood of information around us to find where the information comes
from and investigating its accuracy in this second of the Three
Tuesdays workshops before November's elections.
On Tuesday night, October 7, journalist Tom Johnson will show workshop
participants how to track data to their upstream sources. Web pages
and their data are not static events; learn how to find the "signs" of
where they came from, who owns the site(s) and sometimes who links to
them. Johnson will discuss how investigators can use these attributes
to advantage and also take a step back to consider the "architecture
of sophisticated web searching."
The third and final workshop, on October 14, will explore the payoff
for the research done by the workshop's participants: following the
money to see what and who is supporting the campaign. This final
workshop looks at web sites that make it easier to follow the election
money and focuses on how to get their data into a spreadsheet. Then
what? A short intro to slicing-and-dicing the numbers. (Even if you
are a spreadsheet maven, please come and act as a coach.)
These workshops will give participants an opportunity to do some hands-
on ("On-line hands-on", that is) investigation of New Mexico politics.
Participants are also encouraged to bring a laptop if they can. After
learning to do the online research needed to understand what's
happening in the fall political campaign, participants will have the
opportunity to do homework assignments and contribute to the Three
Tuesdays wiki so their discoveries will be available to the general
public.
Everyone is welcome but space will be limited. A suggested donation of
$45 covers all three events or $20 will help produce each session.
Click here to sign up.
Tom Johnson's 30-year career path in journalism is one that regularly
moved from the classroom to the newsroom and back. He worked for TIME
magazine in El Salvador in the mid-80s, was the founding editor of
MacWEEK, and a deputy editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His areas
of interest are analytic journalism, dynamic simulation models of
publishing systems, complexity theory, the application of Geographic
Information Systems in journalism and the impact of the digital
revolution on journalism and journalism education. He is the founder
and co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism and a member
of the Advisory Board of Santa Fe Complex.
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the project space at 624
Agua Fria and the work space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going sfComplex projects. The project
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer Internet
access, working facilities, a coffee lounge and work carrels for
laptop users.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location. For more information, call Don Begley at
505/216.7562.
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