A lecture and public discussion on global climate change will be held Thursday as part of the National Park’ Service’s monthly lecture series in Christiansted.
The lecture will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Danish Guinea West India Company Warehouse/ Slave Market Building. Free parking will be available in the the Christiansted National Historic lot, which will be open from 4:45 to 7 p.m.
The presentation will be hosted by Jenn Travis from the Friends of St. Croix East End Marine Park/CZM. As a coral reef management fellow with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Travis works with DPNR at the East End Marine Park. In that capacity she recently took part in a climate change conference hosted by NOAA.
Travis came to St. Croix in 2009. Since then, she has managed the Turtle Watch Education Program at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, been an active member of the Virgin Islands Network of Environmental Educators, led hundreds of snorkel tours, coordinated the education program at St. George Village Botanical Garden, co-designed a communication and outreach plan for Virgin Islands Marine Protected Areas Network, and completed her master’s degree in science in education at Old Dominion University.
