[Biology-U-L] A SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES

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*/Discoveries /*

*/A SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES/*

*Discoveries made by scientists and others continually redefine what we 
know, and what we do not know about the origins of earth and life.  
Science is not an arrival, but a journey with many questions.  Behind 
each locked door that has been opened are still more doors and more 
locks.  This lecture series will explore the wonders of new discoveries 
and current research in the field of natural history. *

 

 

Thursday, March 22

*Some Light Shed on Bioluminescence*

*With Edith Widder (2006 MacArthur Fellow) *

7:00 PM; Fleischmann Auditorium

Join us for an evening of exploration and discovery with Edith Widder, 
recipient of the "genius" award from the MacArthur Foundation.  Dr. 
Widder is a biologist and deep-sea explorer that specializes in 
bioluminescence (the light chemically produced by many ocean organisms) 
and has been a leader in the design of new submersible vehicles.  Dr. 
Widder will share with us her most recent discoveries. 

 

Thursday, April 5

DISCOVERIES LECTURE SERIES

*/Elephant's"Hear with Their Feet"/*

*With Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell *

7:00 PM; Fleischmann Auditorium

 

Caitlin O'Connell has spent 14 years researching the complexities of 
elephant behavior.  Fascinated by the particular way that elephants 
seemed to be listening with their feet, she hypothesized that the 
elephants were communicating with sound waves that travel within the 
surface of the ground as opposed to the air.  Her efforts over the next 
decade to prove this hypothesis took her to the bayous of Texas, the 
Nevada desert, southern India, northern Zimbabwe, the Oakland Zoo, and 
then back to the scrub desert of Namibia.  O'Connell will discuss her 
groundbreaking theory of how elephants use seismic communication.  
Following her lecture, you will have the opportunity to purchase the new 
book /The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of 
Africa/, and have her sign a copy

 

 

Thursday, June 14

Talk & Booksigning

*/Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of 
Southern California /*

/*/by Jan Timbrook, with botanical watercolors by Chris Chapman/*/**

7:30 PM; Fleishmann Auditorium

/Chumash Ethnobotany* */thoroughly describes the knowledge and uses of 
some 150 species of plants among one of California's best-known 
indigenous cultures.  It provides valuable insight into the ways in 
which some 20,000 Native Californians interacted with, thought about, 
affected and were affected by their natural environment.  The product of 
decades of research by one of the top experts in Chumash studies, it is 
written in a clear, easy-to-understand style that is accessible to 
general readers while providing enough detail to satisfy scholars.

 

*Admission for each lecture is $8 for Member, Non-members $10, and 
students $8.  To reserve a seat, please e-mail jbarber at sbnature2.org 
<mailto:jbarber at sbnature2.org> or phone 805-682-4711, extension 170. *

 

 

 

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