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Event:
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“Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish”
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Date:
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Friday, April 10th, 2026
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Time:
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4:00 PM
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Location:
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Bobbitt Visual Arts - Albion College Campus
611 East Porter Street
Albion
Phone: 5179454208
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Cost:
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Free
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Contact:
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Renee Kreger
Click Here to Email
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Description:
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Dr. Barbara Boustead will be
giving a public talk
on
Friday, April 10 at 4pm in
Bobbit
Auditorium, entitled
“Wilder Weather: What
Laura
Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us
About the
Weather, Climate,
and Protecting What We
Cherish”. All are welcome and
encouraged
to attend this
interdisciplinary event co-
sponsored by Honors, E&E, and
CSE.
Laura Ingalls Wilder wasn’t an
official
weather observer. She
simply paid attention.
Her
life and livelihood
intertwined with the
weather
and climate around her,
inseparable. Wilder Weather
reveals the
accuracy of the
vivid, detailed weather
descriptions in her fictional
Little House
books—stories of
blizzards and prairie fires,
tornadoes and grasshoppers,
floods and
droughts. Wilder’s
trusted voice builds a bridge
for the millions of Americans
across
generations who have
enjoyed her books to
connect
the weather of the past to
weather
today and in the
future, shining light on the
changing climate around us and
the ways
to keep our families
and communities safe. Find
out
more and check out the book at
wilderweather.com.
Barbara Boustead
is a
meteorologist, climatologist,
and
author of the nonfiction
book Wilder Weather:
What
Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches
Us
About Weather, Climate, and
Protecting What
We Cherish.
Her 24-year career with the
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration
includes 22 years with the
National Weather Service
serving in various
roles as an
operational weather
forecaster,
climate program
leader, and instructor. She
now works in NOAA’s Office of
Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Research as a Heat Services
Program Manager for the
National
Integrated Heat
Health Information System
(NIHHIS) program. She has
published articles in
the
Washington Post, Weatherwise
magazine, and the Fine Lines
literary
journal, and her
essay "Pain's Imposter
Syndrome" is included in the
award-
winning anthology
Awakenings: Stories of Body
&
Consciousness. She has served
as the
president of the Laura
Ingalls Wilder Legacy and
Research Association (a
501(c)3 non-profit
organization) and president of
the Omaha-
Offutt Chapter of
the American Meteorological
Society. Barb resides near
Omaha,
Nebraska, with her
spouse and 11-year-old son.
When she's not writing,
working, giving
personal
forecasts to friends and
family, or
teaching climate to
teachers and students, she
is
probably on the sidelines of
her kid's
baseball/soccer/flag
football games, keeping up
with book club reads,
handicapping sports
events,
chasing storms, jogging a few
miles, singing karaoke, or
coping with her
health. If
she's really lucky, she's
beside a
lake in northern
Michigan, where she grew up.
Barb earned bachelor's degrees
from
Central Michigan
University in meteorology,
geography, and English, a
master's degree
in meteorology
from Penn State University,
and a Ph.D. in Natural
Resources: Climate
Assessment
and Impacts from the
University of Nebraska-
Lincoln.
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