Noah Strycker presents The Chinstrap Penguins of Elephant Island: From Endurance to Esperanza, Tuesday, September 28 at 7pm
Posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
Zoom and/or In-Person
Please join us via Zoom:
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/98221702197?pwd=QzFpTU9lVEhuRERPa3ZUZlhhTHZqUT09
Meeting ID: 982 2170 2197
Passcode: 844830
In Person: Room 100 Willamette Hall, UO Campus
There will be limited capacity seating for those who wish to attend in person. Participants must be masked at all times when indoors as well as outdoors on the UO campus when distancing cannot be maintained. Proof of vaccination or current UO ID is required for admission into the classroom.
Doors will open at 6:30. Noah will have books available for purchase.
Date:
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 7:00pm
Location:
Zoom and 100 Willamette Hall, UO campus, Eugene
At the start of this year, a team of penguin scientists, including our own Noah Strycker, surveyed colonies in the Antartic. Noah will present our September program. This video produced by Greenpeace "
Antarctica’s windswept Elephant Island may be best known as the bleak refuge of British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew after they lost their ship Endurance in 1916. Today, the island is a stronghold for thousands of nesting Chinstrap Penguins.
When the COVID-19 virus completely shut down our in-person meetings in the spring of 2020, we turned to Zoom to get the programs out to you. What should we do moving forward? At the May LCAS Zoom meeting, a survey was taken and the results indicated that roughly half wanted to return to in-person meetings and the other half were hesitant about gathering in-person. The LCAS Board of Directors hopes to do both.
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