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Sea-level rise documentary features WCU prof

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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Learn how communities are dealing with coastal erosion, storms and rising sea levels with a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “Shored Up” at Western Carolina University as part of its Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines. 

Rob Young, director of the WCU Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, is one of the policy and environmental experts who appears in the documentary.

A discussion and reception will follow the screening, which will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center on the WCU campus. Young and Director Ben Kalina will be on hand to discuss the film. 

Free. Call 828.227.7519. 

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