Extinction's Greatest Hits
Lunch talk with the author and Center media fellow Mary Ellen Hannibal
TIME AND DATE
Wednesday, May 28, 201412:00 - 1:00 pm
LOCATION
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki
Environment & Energy Building, Room 300
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94306
Open With Registration
Species of plants and animals are disappearing 100 times faster than they should. In a six-part series for The New York Times scheduled to run this May, the science and environment writer Mary Ellen Hannibal tracks how the science of conservation biology developed to engage the problems of extinction.
Her talk on the subject will focus on the discovery process – how landmark concepts, extinction’s “greatest hits,” were figured out by scientists and continue to be refined and applied today. Many of these stories have a distinctly Western focus – and Paul Ehrlich and Peter Raven hatched the idea for quantifying co-evolution right here at Stanford and at the Jasper Ridge Biological Reserve.
A slide presentation accompanies her talk. Lunch will be provided. Attendees are asked to please RSVP using the link above.
Participants
Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of The Spine of the Continent, and a winner of Stanford’s Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism. Her book on citizen science will be published in Spring 2015.
