Pat Michaels, a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C., will discuss "Global Warming: The End of the Story" at 7 p.m. in Cooper Science Complex, room CP 188.

His presentation, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Ball State geography department.

Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society.

He received bachelor's and master's degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979.

For more information, contact Robert Schwartz, geography professor, at (765) 285-1761.