November 7, 2011: MDP held a speaking event with Dr. Evan Girvetz, a conservation ecologist who works on environmental decision support systems and climate change impact assessment. He presented a lecture entitled: Helping People Adapt to Climate Change Using Nature-Based Approaches.  Dr. Girvetz serves as Senior Scientist with the Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Program and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the School of Forest Resources of the University of Washington, and has spearheaded the development of the Climate Wizard a web-based tool that allows non-specialist decision-makers to understand past and future climate trends in specific locations.