Science on Tap continues its 2025–26 season!
Join the Flathead Lakers and Flathead Lake Biological Station for a relaxed evening of science and storytelling with Dr. Kyle Bocinsky, Director of Climate Extension for the Montana Climate Office.
📅 Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: The Cellar at Flathead Lake Brewing Company, Bigfork
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The Northern Rocky Mountain region is experiencing rapid climate change—rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extremes such as flash droughts and atmospheric rivers. In this edition of Science on Tap, Dr. Kyle Bocinsky, Director of Climate Extension for the Montana Climate Office, will explore how these changes are reshaping the Crown of the Continent and what they mean for the people and ecosystems that depend on it.
Drawing on high-resolution CMIP6 climate models, Dr. Bocinsky will share projections showing 4–5°F of warming by century’s end, more days above 90°F, and wetter winters with drier summers—shifts that will impact snowpack, streamflow, and water availability across Montana. Learn how new tools like the Montana Mesonet and the Drought Monitoring Dashboard are helping communities and land managers prepare for the challenges ahead.
🎟 Tickets: $5
🍻 Food and drinks available from the FLBC Pubhouse
Your ticket supports the Flathead Lakers’ mission to protect clean water through research, outreach, and action.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kyle Bocinsky is the Director of Climate Extension for the Montana Climate Office and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Society and Conservation at the University of Montana. He specializes in cross-disciplinary, computational approaches to studying resilience in socio-ecological systems, with a focus on high-elevation arid agricultural systems. Kyle works with users of climate data across Montana—from agriculture and forestry to recreation and urban planning—and partners closely with Native Nations to support their climate resilience goals.
He also holds appointments at the Desert Research Institute and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Kyle loves life in the Northern Rockies, especially spending time outdoors with his husband, daughters, and dogs.