Dr. Georgia Murray will talk about the successes that the 1970 Clean Air Act brought to New Hampshire’s White Mountains in terms of reduced air pollution, ozone, acid rain and power-plant haze. She will discuss the potential impacts of Clean Air Act rollbacks that are currently underway, alongside the climate change impacts our mountain ecosystem is enduring. These changes have important implications for Granite Stater’s outdoor recreation economy, health and wellness.

Georgia Murray is a Senior Scientist and Assistant Director of Research with the Appalachian Mountain Club. Previously she has conducted biogeochemical research for the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Ecosystem Center at Toolik, Alaska a Long-term Ecological Research site and worked at the University of Washington maintaining a long-term small watershed monitoring site within Olympic National Park. Georgia currently oversees Appalachian Mountain Club’s ambient air pollution mountain-based monitoring of cloud, rain, and stream water chemistry in Wilderness areas in the White Mountain National Forest. She also leads AMC’s plant phenology monitoring work using Nature’s Notebook and iNaturalist, which incorporates community science and mountain climate research.