HUNTINGTON — The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce will present its 5th Annual Energy & Natural Resource Symposium sponsored by Natural Resource Partners L.P. on Thursday, Oct. 29, featuring keynote speaker Patrick J. Michaels, a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute.
The event will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Pullman Plaza Hotel, 1001 Third Ave. in Huntington, with a reception immediately following, sponsored by Cabell Huntington Hospital. Additional Sponsors include: Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP.
The Cato Institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace.
Michaels is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society.
Michaels was also a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Houston Chronicle, and Journal of Commerce.
He was an author of the climate "paper of the year" awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.
Michaels holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a Ph.D. in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.
Additional speakers will be announced soon.
Cost to attend this event is $200 for a table of six or $50 per person. Visa, MasterCard and American Express are accepted. All cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance. To register, contact the Chamber at (304) 525-5131.
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