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Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Monday, February 15, 2021
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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February 17, 2021 -Can Citizen Science Save Us?
Can Citizen Science Save Us?
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
7 PM to 8:30 PM
With Mary Ellen Hannibal
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Mary Ellen Hannibal is an award-winning author. Her book Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction was named a best book of 2016 by the San Francisco Chronicle and won a Nautilus book award. She frequently contributes to Bay Nature, Nautilus, the New York Times, and Science magazines. Her Stanford TEDx talk addresses citizen science in general: Can Citizen Science Save Us? Her most recent TED addresses How you can help save the monarch butterfly, and the planet. Citizen science is an old/new practice of direct observation of nature by amateurs. Today the practice is turbo-charged by smartphone technology and vast computing power. It is needed as never before, because plants and animals are disappearing too fast, and Earth is undergoing a mass extinction. The good news is that citizen science is a concept, a format, and a tool for addressing environmental problems at a local level, including the urban environment. In this talk I'll go over some of the basics of citizen science and focus on local projects that make a difference.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
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Friday, February 19, 2021
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Saturday, February 20, 2021
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