PORT ANGELES — Kate Dean, director of the North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development Council, will discuss a climate change adaptation plan in the works for East Jefferson and Clallam counties today.
Dean’s free lecture, which is open to the public, will be the Studium Generale presentation at 12:30 p.m. in the Little Theater on the Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The council she directs is a nonprofit group of government representatives from Jefferson and Clallam counties that manages regional community and economic development projects.
Dean will discuss the plan and the collaborative efforts to pursue solutions and preparedness.
Dean said East Jefferson and Clallam counties have an opportunity to reduce risks of danger from climate change through a detailed assessment of climate-related vulnerabilities and the creation of an adaptation plan for the North Olympic Peninsula.
The plan will provide information for cities, counties, tribes, public utility districts and ports, she said.
Dean is an economic development consultant specializing in natural resources projects.
She has lived on the Olympic Peninsula for 15 years and has worked as a farmer and business owner.
During her 20 years of work in rural enterprise development projects in the Pacific Northwest, she specialized in collaborative public processes for issues related to natural resources.
She has worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in land use planning, open space preservation and rural enterprise development.
Dean holds a bachelor’s degree in sustainable agriculture and a master’s degree in public administration from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.
For more information, contact Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.
