<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:17.1414px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#38761d">The Casella Environmental Sustainability Lecture</font></span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Elizabeth Kolbert</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent">A mass extinction event 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs, along with three quarters of the species on earth. Today, the world is </span>changing so<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent"> rapidly that scientists fear another extinction event is underway. On the tenth anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert talks about what this means for people and the millions of other species who share our planet and about what has been learned in the decade since the book appeared.</span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>7:00 Friday Oct 23</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>SUNY Plattsburgh</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Yokum Hall, Room 200</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="background-color:transparent">This event is free and open to the public</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">There will be a reception and book signing following the talk</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_muzj1gyr0" alt="Kolbert_flier.jpg" width="351" height="542" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div>