• When: Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Doors open at 6 p.m. for light refreshments; lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.
• Where: Stroud Water Research Center, 970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311.
• Cost: Free, thanks to a generous sponsor. Please let us know you’re coming so we can plan refreshments.

Award-winning author and photographer Tim Palmer will present a slideshow based on his new book, Seek Higher Ground: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis, published by University of California Press.

With striking photos and engaging narrative, Palmer will explain how efforts to control floods through dam and levee construction have been, at best, inadequate, and how the endless cycle of floods, damage, recovery, and repeated losses can best be ended through the protection of open space on floodplains and voluntary relocation of homes and businesses from hazard-prone areas.

Palmer will show how the warming climate is making flood dangers worse, and how an improved response is essential if widespread disasters are to be avoided in the future.