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Attached is a map for parking and the Brokaw Lecture. I hope you can see it. I have also posted on FaceBook - so visit us there and "Like" us! Also, on Thursday, Nov. 14, we have an Energy & Environment Forum with Dr. Bruce McCarl in the Toyota, 3:30 - 5 pm. Dr. Bruce McCarl, from Texas A&M University, will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. His talk is titled: Climate Change and Decision Making: An Economic and Agricultural Perspective. Abstract: Climate change raises major challenges for current and future decision making and the economy, including the agricultural one. Dr. McCarl will address issues of climate change vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation in general and with an economic and agricultural bias. Specific topics include: climate change effects, causes and the inevitability of future change; the basic economic issue of allocating effort across climate-related information gathering, mitigation and adaption in contrast to conventional uses of funds for consumption and investment; agricultural implications, mitigation and adaptation possibilities; and the results of select studies on effects, adaptation and mitigation. Bruce McCarl is University Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. Dr. McCarl works on the economic implications of global climate change, greenhouse gas emission reduction and water allocation/policy along with applications of optimization theory. He is involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, being a lead author of the IPCC 2007 Agricultural Mitigation chapter plus the 2014 Economics of Adaptation chapter. He has performed numerous analyses of the US effects of climate change incidence, mitigation and adaptation plus in addition to being on the National Academy of Science Panel on America's Climate Choices. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and was a participant in the IPCC 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.