"Climate Change Impacts Assessment and Policy - Where we are Gaining and Losing" is the next “Egghead Evening” topic Monday, Aug. 20, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Lincoln County Democratic Committee’s Campaign Office at 521 Main St. in Damariscotta.

Katherine Jacobs, director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona, will lead the discussion.

From 2010-2013, Jacobs served as an assistant director in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of President Obama. She was the director of the National Climate Assessment (NCA), leading a team of 300 authors and more than a thousand contributors who wrote the third NCA report. She also was the lead advisor on water science and policy, and climate adaptation, within OSTP. Jacobs is a summer resident of Southport Island and has a deep interest in the potential effects of climate change on the coastline of Maine.

Egghead Evenings are open discussion groups focusing on policy-related or historical topics featuring experts who live in or frequent Midcoast Maine. Visit http://lincolncountydemocrats.com/events for a full schedule.

For more information, contact office@lincolncountydemocrats.com or call (207) 687-7052.