Talks by Molly Brown (NASA) on food security, Peter Claggett (USGS) on the Chesapeake Bay, and Joseph Sexton (UMD) on land use change will be featured along with a panel Q&A, and related exhibits.
Register for this free event at http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/bs-md-ho-space-landscape-forum-20141029-story.html
Further reading:
+ NASA comes to Howard Community College for forum on climate change data, The Baltimore Sun

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