The Lopez Island Library and the Friends of the Lopez Library are pleased to present as part of their Summer of Science programming, an evening with marine geophysicist Dr. Richard Carlson. Shocking videos from Sumatra (in 2004) and Japan (in 2011) brought earthquakes and tsunamis into our living rooms and their prominence is pertinent to all of us who live along the Pacific’s “Ring of Fire”.

In his presentation Only a Matter of Time: Earthquakes & Tsunamis in Cascadia & the Salish Sea, Dr. Carlson will discuss the history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in our Lopez Island region as well as the likelihood of them occurring again.

Dr. Carlson is currently Regents Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A & M University.

He is a marine geophysicist and from 2008 through 2012 he served as Program Director for the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program of the National Science Foundation where a major part of his work was the Cascadia Initiative, a multi-year study of earthquake seismicity in the Pacific Northwest. Thursday, Aug. 14, 6 – 7 p.m. in the Lopez Library Community Room.