My writer friend, Mary Ellen Hannibal, recently posted: “Species of plants and animals are disappearing 100 times faster than they should. Later this month The New York Times will start running a six-part series I’ve written, tracking how conservation biology developed to engage the problems of extinction. I’ll be giving a couple of talks on the subject too, focusing on the discovery process — how landmark concepts, extinction’s ‘greatest hits,’
were figured out by scientists and continue to be refined and applied today. Many of these stories have a distinctly Western focus — Paul Ehrich and Peter Raven hatched the idea for quantifying co-evolution (relationships that climate change is unhinging) based on butterflies and plants at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Reserve. Totally appropriate for kids 12 and up.
Evening of Extinction
Friday, May 9
From 6:30-8:30 with a talk at 7:15
1850 Fourth Street, San Rafael
with “The Last of Their Kind,” paintings by Ellen Litwiller [beautiful!]
Wednesday, May 28
Lunch and slide presentation
12:00-1:00
Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West
RSVP here: http://west.stanford.edu/events/extinctions-greatest-hits
A working sculptor 