Climate Change – A Positive Point of View

Don’t miss this event, Billings Conservation Roundtable and Montana Conservation Voters members!

Dr. Linda (Diz) Swift was born and raised in Great Falls, graduated from C. M. Russell High School and continued to the University of Montana.  She has a BA in History and an MS and PhD in Geology from the University of Washington.  She recently retired from Chevron, after 23 years working in planning, mergers and acquisitions, exploration, overseas ventures, minerals exploration and finally as General Manager of  Integrated Laboratory Technologies, serving all global Chevron companies with R&D and technical laboratory support for physical and chemical science and technology.

Dr. Swift worked underground as a geologist for Stillwater Mining Company and as planning advisor for the Pittsburg and Midway Coal Company.

After retiring from Chevron, Dr. Swift decided to search beyond the media hype about climate change and study the scientific data.  “The more I studied, the more complicated I found the subject,” she says. “Some aspects were indeed beyond doubt, while others are still poorly understood.”

Dr. Swift’s lecture is free and open to the public

For information, contact Charles F. Tooley
Director, Urban Institute
Montana State University Billings
(406) 896-5862
ctooley@msubillings.edu

Linda Dismore Swift, Ph.D.
“Climate Change – A Positive Point of View”

Dr. Linda (Diz) Swift will be speaking on climate change at 10:30AM on Thursday, November 12th at 10:30AM in the LI 148 lecture room at Montana State University in Billings.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Swift was born and raised in Great Falls, graduated from C. M. Russell High School and continued to the University of Montana.  She has a BA in History and an MS and PhD in Geology from the University of Washington.  She recently retired from Chevron, after 23 years with them.  Her last position with Chevron was as General Manager of Integrated Laboratory Technologies, an organization that served all global Chevron companies with R&D and technical laboratory support for physical and chemical science and technology. Other work in Chevron included planning, merger and acquisitions, exploration and new ventures in Latin America and the Far East, and minerals exploration in the U.S. and Australia, including working underground as a geologist for Stillwater Mining Company and as planning advisor for the Pittsburg and Midway Coal Company.  Prior to joining Chevron in 1982, Dr. Swift worked on lunar rocks for NASA and was coordinator for a multi-year project to classify, inventory and map wetlands for Washington state. Dr Swift also served from 1971-1975 in southernmost Chile in the U.S. Peace Corps working on national park planning and glacial geology.

Dr. Swift currently serves on the advisory board for the College of Technology of Montana State University, Billings, and as an advisor for Earth Science for MSU-Bozeman.  She also works with the American Foundation for the Blind, and continues with some consulting in geology.

After retiring from Chevron, Dr. Swift says she “decided to search beyond the media hype about climate change and study the scientific data.  The more I studied, the more complicated I found the subject.  Some aspects were indeed beyond doubt, while others are still poorly understood.”  Her presentation is titled “Climate Change – A Positive Point of View”.