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Sophomore William Riley and junior Chris Pare, co-presidents of the Lakes Region school’s outdoors club, say they’ve learned a fair amount in school and online about climate change globally but they ve heard less about how New Hampshire is changing.
“How is that going to impact, say, the ski season in New Hampshire and your everyday life?” Pare said. “Rather than it being something that’s kind of just there and you’re not really personally seeing those impacts.”
That shift is the focus of the summit he and Riley organized, on their own time – not for a class or grade. The virtual event will include New Hampshire state climatologist Mary Stampone and other researchers from Plymouth State and the University of New Hampshire who are focused on lakes, soil, snow and adaptation issues.