On Oceans

Our oceans have absorbed the bulk of the heat trapped in the past 150 years and much of the CO2, and it’s fortunate that they have otherwise our planet would be uninhabitable. Bill Gorham will discuss the physical, chemical, and biological changes that we have already seen and are projected to increase in the absence of action on climate. Many effects are interrelated and several tipping points are close to being or have been exceeded, possibly irrevocably.

Bill Gorham received his PhD in Marine Biology in 1984, taught college level biology for nearly a decade, then moved into environmental consulting until he retired in 2017 and moved to Brookings. He’s restored coral reefs, led field programs for both marine and terrestrial projects, managed environmental permit applications for many proposed projects including large terrestrial and marine-related energy projects. Since retiring, Bill has focused much of his time on educating people on the climate crisis and empowering them to take personal and collective action. He became a Climate Reality Leader in Atlanta, 2019, and is active locally, nationally, and globally in this effort to pass a habitable planet onto future generations.