Rosalie Winard – “An Itinerant Photographer of the Wetlands

Imagine banding 2,500 white pelican chicks at Chase Lake NWR in North Dakota, airboating on the Great Salt Lake amongst avocets, black-necked stilts and white-faced ibises, or sleeping in the middle of the Platte River in Nebraska surrounded by thousands of vociferous sandhill cranes. With her camera, Rosalie has witnessed and documented avian adaptations to habitat encroachment and the sudden disappearance and re-emergence of bird colonies. She will accompany her talk with photographs from her book, Wild Birds of the American Wetlands, as well as photos from her personal archives. To see a collection of her work go to : Birdfactory.org

Lars Tomanek – “Weathering the challenges of climate change: from birds to Gaia

Lars Tomanek is a Faculty Member at the California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo and Principal Investigator of the Environmental Proteomics Laboratory there.

His presentation will provide solutions and introduce the audience to the latest scientific findings about the effects of global climate change on birds, people and the planet. Details on how birds will be affected by climate change will be presented and also a broader perspective will be given on how humans will be affected and how we should adapt to climate change. There will be some talk about hope despite a possibly very challenging situation.