Speaker: Paula Welander is a microbiologist who received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She pursued her PhD studies in microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral studies at MIT in the Departments of Biology and of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. ...
Monitoring and Predicting the California Current System with Global and Regional ModelsGiven the ecological and socioeconomic importance of the California Current System (CCS), there is broad interest in monitoring and modeling its variability on multiple timescales. To that end, regional ocean models have become indispensable tools for leveraging available observations to predict conditions in unobserved locations and understand physical and biogeochemical ...
Speaker: Simone Alin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and University of Washington School of Oceanography
Where: Bodega BayCost: Free
An Evening of Mushroom LoreAuthor and mycologist Lawrence Millman combines ecological, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary knowledge in his research and writings. His latest work, Fungipedia, takes us on a mycological journey - from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings.His work explores the lives of individuals like African American scientist George Washington Carver, ...
