Elizabeth Kolbert, Heinz Award-winning staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (2006), comes to OSU to discuss her new book, The Sixth Extinction. By burning fossil fuels, Homo sapiens are “reassembling the biosphere,” rapidly changing the atmosphere, the oceans, and the climate, forcing potentially millions of species into extinction. Kolbert’s compelling and enlightening report forthrightly addresses the most significant topic of our lives. Presented by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. For more information about the Spring Creek Project, visit http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu.