Speaker Series

Past Events

2022:

• The Natural History of the San Francisco Peaks, a Sky Island of the American Southwest, a talk with Gwendolyn Waring. Video
• The Brothers Boutelou and the Grass they Barely Knew, a talk with Debbie DeWolf Allen. Video
• Bearing Witness, an artist talk featuring Randy L. Waln. Video
• Science and Poetry of the Sierra Nevada, a conversation with Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale. Video
• #Findthatlizard: Ecology, Science Outreach, and Supporting Underrepresented Groups in Herpetology and Natural Resources, a talk by Dr. Earyn McGee. Video
• Natural History and the Respectful Roots of Ecological Theory, a conversation with Mary Power. Video
• The Nature of Three Deserts – Sonoran and Arabian and the Desert Within, a talk by author Gary Paul Nabhan. Video
• Parched: The Art of Water in the Southwest Documentary Screening, with comments by curator Julie Comnick and the producer Jane Marks. Video
• A Woven World: Making and Unmaking our Histories Through Science and Art, a conversation with poet and author Alison Hawthorne Deming. Video

2021:

• January 14, (Online) Thursday, 5:30pm (AZ/MST): Snakes of Arizona – Andy Holycross  Video
• January 28, (Online) Thursday, 5:30pm (AZ/MST): A New Vision for Environmental Learning – A Conversation with Mitch Thomashow  Video
• February 18, (Online) Thursday, 6pm (AZ/MST): Poetry & The Wild: A Reading and Conversation with Jane Hirshfield  Video
• April 1, (Online) Thursday, 5:30pm (AZ/PDT): Wolves, Wildfire, and Climate Change: A Conversation with Jon Trapp  Video
• June 3, (Online) Thursday, 5PM (AZ/PDT): Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating Life in a Time of Extinction, a conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore  Video
• October 21, (In-Person) Thursday, 7pm: Collaborating with Place – Shawn Skabelund. Video
• November 18, (In-Person) Thursday, 7pm: The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art – Wynne Brown.  Video
• December 2, (Online) Thursday, 5:30pm (AZ/MST): Ways of Seeing: The Practice of Observation in Natural History and Art – Lynn Alleva Lilley and Tom Fleischner.  Video
• December 9, (In-Person) Thursday, 7pm: The Fascinating Life of Javelinas and Other Peccaries: Ecology, Natural History, Behavior and Conservation – Mariana Altrichter.  Video

2020:

• February 6, Thursday, 7pm: Passion, Devotion, Intimacy: Art and Natural History – Melanie Campbell-Carter  Video
• July 16, (Online) Thursday, 4pm PDT/AZ: Not Just Birds, Not Just Science, Not Just Politics – Susan M. Gaines, Ana Luz Porzecanski, Scott Slovic, and moderated by Tom Fleischner  Video
• July 22, (Online) Wednesday, 6pm PDT/AZ: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World – Tyson Yunkaporta  Video
• August 4, (Online) Tuesday, 4pm PDT/AZ, Story and the Ecological Imagination – Julia Corbett, Tom Fleischner, Susan M. Gaines, Cylita Guy, J. Drew Lanham, Nalini Nadkarni, Richard Nevle and Stephen Trimble  Video
• August 20, (Online) Thursday, 5pm PDT/AZ, Conversation on the Edge: Wildness, Reconciliation, and Love of the World – J. Drew Lanham  Video
• December 10, (Online) Thursday, 5:30pm MST/AZ, Fire and the Future of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands – Lisa Floyd-Hanna  Video

2019:

• January 17:  Honey Bee Natural History and Conservation – Jordan Twombly Ellis  Video
• February 7: Slave Raiding Ants of Prescott: Natural History of the Ants, Their Slaves, and the Parasites That Attack Them Both – Peter Sherman  Video
• February 27: The Biocultural Riches of the Gulf of California – Lorayne Meltzer  Video
• March 7: Frog Stories: Natural History as an Amphibian Decline Research Tool – Andrea Adams  Video
• March 21: Scallywags, Gloryhounds, Visionaries and Conservationists: Stories from the Arader Collection – Melanie Campbell-Carter  Video
• April 4: Saving Seeds, Saving Ourselves, Saving the Earth – Bill McDorman  Video
• April 25: A Tale of Two Pikas: From the Rockies to the Roof of the World – Andrew Smith  Video
• May 2: Three Decades of Science on Polar Ice: A Personal Perspective – Steve Munsell  Video
• May 9: Where Have All the Turtles Gone, and Why Does It Matter? – Jeff Lovich  Video
• July 11: Biomimicry: Observing and Learning from Nature’s Genius – Lily Urmann
• August 8: The Intersection of Art and Conservation – Walt Anderson  Video
• September 5:  Fire History and Historical Stand Reconstruction of the Mogollon Highlands Ponderosa Pine – Lisa Floyd-Hanna, NHI, and Dave Huffman, Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI)
• October 24:  Alpenglow: The Practice of Art & Natural History in the Range Of Light – Brian Scavone, Eric Smith and Ryan Alonzo  Video  
• October 25: The Biophilia Hypothesis Comes to the Periodic Table – Deborah Ford  Video  
• October 31:  Ancient Arizona – Wayne Ranney  Video  
• November 14: Cuatro Ciénegas: An Oasis of Biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert – Matt Valente  Video

2018:

• January 11: Ladybugs and Big Data: Tracking Harmonia axyridis in Space and Time – Jordan Twombly Ellis
• February 1: The Gulf of California: A Natural History Treasure – Lorayne Meltzer
• February 15: Lighting the Fire: A Natural History of Story – Bob Ellis
• March 5: Restoration Ecology: Goal Setting, Climate Change, and the Significance of History – Bill Throop
• March 29: The Mogollon Highlands: A Frontier of Field Ornithology – Felipe Guerrero
• April 26: Feathers and Beaks, Bars and Streaks: Form and Pattern in Birds – Mark Riegner
• May 7: Grand Canyon: A Geologic Puzzle Extraordinaire – Lon Abbott
• September 13: Tracking Wildlife in the Verde River: Using Environmental DNA, A New Tool for Biodiversity Assessment – Katie Benson, Hillary Eaton and Matt Valente
• September 27: Food from Radical Center: Healing Our Lands & Communities – Gary Nabhan (in partnership with the Peregrine Book Company)
• October 4: A Thinking Person’s Guide to America’s National Parks – Bob Manning
• October 18: Natural History, Healing and Reciprocity – Panel discussion with Anna O’Malley, Laura Sewall and Sarah Twombly, moderated by Tom Fleischner
• November 1: Heartwood to Bedrock: Artistic Intimacy with the Mogollon Highlands – Rebecca Davis and Roger Asay
• November 15: Awe-some – A Buddhist look at Awe, Conservation, and the Natural World – Will Duncan
• December 13: One Building, 90 Years, Many Stories: The Natural History Institute in Prescott – Bill Otwell