Author and geologist Bruce Bjornstad will be at the Hermiston Public Library to promote his new book that examines the impacts of the Ice Age on the Northwest.
Bjornstad will be speaking at the library at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8 in the Lanham Room. He, along with Eugene Kiver, wrote On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods, Northern Reach: A Geological Field Guide to first volume, On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: A Geological Field Guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin.
A resident of Richland, Wash., Bjornstad is a licensed geologist/hydrogeologist who has studied the Ice Age floods since 1980. He is a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Also a licensed geologist, Kiver retired from Eastern Washington University as professor emeritus of geology in 2002 and divides his time between Cheney and Anacortes, Wash., while still conducting research. Both are active members of the Ice Age Floods Institute and regularly lecture and lead field trips on the subject.
At the completion of the presentation the author will be available for a book signing.
Call 567-2882 for more information.
