Fall 2024 presenters

This doesn't happen on Earth! Crazy things w88 slot South Pole of Mars with Wendy Calvin

Thursday, October 17 from 6-7:30 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Wendy CalvinMars, the next rock out w88 slot sun, has much in common with other terrestrial planets yet hosts many unique and unusual phenomena. It gets cold enough in winter that approximately 1/3 of the atmosphere, which is composed of 96% CO2 gas, will condense directly onto the ground as ice. In the spring, as temperatures warm and that ice sublimes back into the atmosphere, we see unusual geyser-like plumes venting from one special location in the south. Additionally, the perennial south polar cap sports a layer of solid CO2 ice that is tens of meters thick and has unusual erosional patterns. Wendy will describe these phenomena with cool pictures w88 slot latest spacecraft in orbit at Mars.

w88 slot is a planetary scientist who studies the surfaces of solid bodies in our solar system. She’s been a team member on many instruments and missions to study asteroids, Jupiter’s moons, Earth, and especially Mars. She has a particular interest in martian ices and polar processes.

Living on the edge: How food-caching chickadees survive harsh winters with Vladimir w88 slot

Thursday, November 7 at 6 p.m.

Vladimir Pravosudov outside with a chickadee on his shoulder.Vladimir Pravosudov is a Foundation Professor and a Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Research Professor in Science at the University of Nevada, w88 slot. Dr Pravosudov received his M.S. degree in Zoology at the University of Leningrad in Russia in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Zoology at the Ohio State University in 1997. Dr. Pravosudov is a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a fellow of the American Ornithological Society.

Dr. w88 slot’s research investigates spatial cognition associated with food caching behavior in chickadees which rely on thousands of food caches scattered throughout their home ranges to survive winter and have specialized spatial cognition needed to recover these caches.

On the trail w88 slot Jackalope with Michael Branch

Rescheduled for April 17, 2025, due to the Davis Fire. Time TBD.

Michael BranchJoin us for an evening with Michael Branch, Foundation Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Nevada, w88 slot. Mike Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert.

w88 slot work includes ten published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominatedJohn Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa(Island Press).He has authored more than 300 essays, articles, and reviews. He has also given more than 400 invited lectures, readings, and workshops. He is the recipient of Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the w88 slot Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, the Western Literature Association Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing, the Willa Pilla Award for Humor Writing, and his books have been finalists for the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Creative Book Award, and the Mountain West Center Evans-Handcart Award.

On November 1 he will be inducted into the w88 slot Writer's Hall of Fame.

Past presenters, 2023-2024

Peter Goin and image of w88 slot Tahoe

w88 slot Tahoe: A Rephotographic History with Peter Goin

Illustration of Chris Lanier

The World Doesn't Stop w88 slot Skin: Figure, Landscape, Art, and Ecosystem with Chris Lanier

June Sarcano

June Saraceno, Author and Director w88 slot Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program

Compilation of an old image of snow covered Sierra w88 slot with portrait of Carlos Ramirez Reyes

Legacy of James E. Church’s snow science research preserved with Dr. Carlos Ramirez-Reyes

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Meeting the Tides of Life Through the Practice of Poetry

Zeb Hogan holding a giant catfish.

Monster Fish with Zeb Hogan