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2019 Feb 20

The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Mark Plotkin, Co-Founder and President of the Amazon Conservation Team

Brian Hettler, GIS and New Technologies Manager of the Amazon Conservation Team

Richard Evans Schultes—ethnobotanist, taxonomist, writer, photographer, and Harvard professor—is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the twentieth century.... Read more about The Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
2019 Feb 28

Evolution Matters: David Quammen and Carl Zimmer

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Special Event and Book Signing

David Quammen, Author and Journalist

Carl Zimmer, Author and New York Times Columnist

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Evolution Matters Lecture Series, two of the world’s best-known science writers will engage in a lively and wide-ranging conversation.... Read more about Evolution Matters: David Quammen and Carl Zimmer
2019 Mar 05

Making the Earth and Moon

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Rebecca A. Fischer, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago in a series of giant collisions between other planetary bodies, the last of which produced the Moon.... Read more about Making the Earth and Moon
2019 Mar 14

Art and Science Converge in the Deep Sea

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Lily Simonson, Painter

Peter R. Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Lily Simonson and Peter Girguis exemplify the long tradition of artists and scientists working in tandem to explore new worlds—in their case, the magnificent deep sea.... Read more about Art and Science Converge in the Deep Sea
2019 Mar 28

Viruses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Paul Turner, Elihu Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Microbiology Program Faculty Member, Yale University

Viruses are the tiniest but most numerous inhabitants of Earth. Although notorious for causing deadly epidemics, not all viruses are bad.... Read more about Viruses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2019 Apr 02

Living with White Sharks

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Gregory Skomal, Program Manager and Senior Scientist, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries

The Cape Cod white shark population has increased in recent years in response to the dramatic increase in the seal population.... Read more about Living with White Sharks
2019 Apr 09

Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Wild Animals

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Free Public Lecture

Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Domesticated animals such as dogs, pigs, and horses often sport floppy ears, patches of white hair, and other features that are unknown in their wild ancestors.... Read more about Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Wild Animals
2019 Apr 10

Chasing Ants (And Their Microbes) in the Rainforest

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Free Public Lecture

Corrie Moreau, Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity, Cornell University

Microbes play critical roles in the biology and health of human beings, but we are not the only species that benefits from intimate relationships with microbes.... Read more about Chasing Ants (And Their Microbes) in the Rainforest