“Brooklyn Under Water: Confronting a Landscape of Risk”
A Roundtable Discussion 
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 5 to 7 pm
Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery
Organized by the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center at New York City College of Technology and Kingsborough Community College

Please join us for an interdisciplinary conversation about the future of Brooklyn’s waterfronts in the age of climate change. Panelists representing a wide range of expertise—including architecture, history, city planning, biology, and geophysics—will explore what we most need to consider as we confront rising sea levels (see program, below). Audience will be invited to participate in discussion and debate. The event is held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition at Kingsborough’s art gallery, Brooklyn’s Waterfronts: Past, Present, Future which runs from September 4 through September 19, 2012, and features the work of artists Susan Bowen, Willis Elkins, Nathan Kensinger, Robin Michals, and Jean Miele.

Attendance is free but space is limited. Please RSVP to brooklynwaterfront1883@gmail.com by Monday, September 10. For more information on the roundtable and exhibition, go to http://bwexhibit.commons.gc.cuny.edu.

Panelists:

Illya Azaroff, Architectural Technology, NYC College of Technology
Reginald Blake, Physics, NYC College of Technology

Christina Colon, Biological Sciences, Kingsborough Community College

Klaus Jacob, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Michael Marella, NYC Dept. of City Planning

Betsy McCully, English, Kingsborough Community College

Moderator:

Michael Spear, History, Philosophy, and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College