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Biology Department co-sponsoring the Shawangunk winter lecture series
Through Feb. 26, the Biology Department is sponsoring a winter lecture series with the Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership. This year’s topic is “Change and Stability: The Shawangunks as a Living Landscape.”
The series combines four lectures in New Paltz and two in Ellenville and is funded by a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation of Connecticut. All lectures will be held on Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. No advance registration is necessary.
The first lecture, titled “How Fire Resets the Forest Clock,” was held on Jan. 22 in the campus’s Lecture Center.
The following three lectures take place on campus in the Lecture Center (room 100 for Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 and room 102 for Feb. 12). The final two events will take place at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum.
The lectures on campus are as follows:
- Thursday, Jan. 22: “How Fire Resets the Forest Clock” with Gabe Chapin of The Nature Conservancy and Rob Mecus, a New York State Forest Ranger.
- Thursday, Jan. 29: ”Local Knowledge/Global Research: How 100 Years of Shawangunk Data is Helping Answer Global Climate Change Questions” with Ben Cook of Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and Paul Huth of Mohonk Preserve’s Daniel Smiley Research Center.
- Thursday, Feb. 5: “Beavers: Nature’s Wetland Engineers or Nuisance?” with Dietland Muller-Schwarze of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York at Syracuse.
- Thursday, Feb. 12: (Lecture Center room 102) “Big Black Birds – Vultures, Crows and Ravens” with Kimberley Corwin of Breeding Bird Atlas, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
For more information, visit www.mohonkpreserve.org/index.php?events or contact Nadia Steinzor of Mohonk Preserve at (845) 255-0919 or Cara Lee of The Nature Conservancy at (845) 255-9051.
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