San Francisco Natural History Series
Monthly illustrated lectures by expert naturalists.
Presentations begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. in the Randall Museum Theater.
Admission is free; donations are always appreciated.
For more information, call 415 641-7457 or email Philip Gerrie at
glassgerrie@gmail.com.
Please visit our blog for past (and
upcoming) speakers
and lectures notes.
February 16
San
Francisco
Bay - How critical can a
10,000 year old Bay be for a 100 million year old fish? -
Michael McGowan, fisheries oceanographer and aquatic ecologist, will discuss
his research on how the ecology of the green and white sturgeon differ in their
life history and in how they use the Bay.
March 15
Return of the Harbor Porpoises - Bill Keener,
cofounder of Golden Gate Cetacean Research, created to study the porpoise, will
tell us of their disappearance by the 1940's, the mystery of their unexpected
return in recent years, and how you can help by reporting your porpoise
sightings.
April 19
Running Landscapes/Life Studies - A Year of
Sketching San Francisco's Wild Areas - SF Artists Nancy King
& Mary Swanson will show their 16' long panoramic drawing covering nine of
San Francisco's
habitats with their birds, animals and plants. They'll share how their art
connected them with nature and how time spent drawing the familiar transformed
the common into the extraordinary.
May 17
The UNnatural History of San Francisco Bay
- Journalist and author Ariel Rubissow Okamoto will answer a
few burning questions from her new book Natural History of San Francisco Bay -
How do you "make" a wetland if you're not Mother Nature? - If you throw a dead
body of the GG Bridge where will it end up? - Why splashing in the surf off
Crown
Beach might you
give something like poison oak?
June 21
Above and Below San Francisco Streets - In
Search of Eradicated Landscapes - architect Glenn Lym
will speak and show off parts of the 3D CAD model he’s been working on of early
SF topography, roughly 1850 through 1890. Talk includes short video of the
history of GG Park.