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The Speakers Bureau is a directory of arctic researchers and experts that are available to visit organizations, communities or schools to give presentations. The directory contains names, addresses, science specialties, and presentation experience.
We encourage organizations and communities applying to the Arctic Visiting Speakers Series to use the Speakers Bureau to select a visiting speaker. If a particular subject or speaker is not listed, please contact Judy Fahnestock at avs [at] arcus [dot] org, for suggested speakers.
Samuel Bowser
About:
"My talks always try to inject some "alternative views" of our science, as portrayed by artists or school children. In this sense, I'm a bit peculiar."
Dr. Sam Bowser is a cell biologist at Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York. He is interested in the evolution and ecology of rhizopod protists, specifically Foraminifera, which are single-celled organisms that play an important role in the world's oceans. Research in Bowser's lab has helped unravel the early evolution of Foraminifera, their relationship to other rhizopods, and their ecological significance. He has extensive field experience in polar regions (McMurdo Sound Antarctica; Svalbard) and he could fill a book with stories about research at high altitudes.
Bowser is highly involved with the intertwining of art and science. To bring science to a larger audience, he works in cooperation with many artists in a variety of media including: photography, television, and film. He played a leading role in Werner Herzog's Oscar-nominated documentary Encounters at the End of the World.
Bowser is a very experienced lecturer and public speaker. He has given hundreds of talks to school age children, and most recently was invited to speak in the celebration of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty. Other recent public speaking events include being the keynote speaker for Earthweek 2009 at Dutchess Community College, and giving the keynote address at the University of Albany Department of Biological Sciences 2009 commencement ceremony.
Bowser is interested in speaking to a wide variety of audiences, and is excited to have the opportunity to network with a diverse group of educators. He is not available to speak during the months of October through December.
Representative lecture titles include:
• "Endangered Submarine Forests: Protistan Trees with More Bite Than Bark"
• "Twenty Years On (and Under) Antarctic Ice"
• "Art/Science in Antarctica: Rational Art and Irrational Science"
Bowser received his doctoral degree at the State University of New York in Albany; then went on to conduct two concurrent post-doctorate studies, one in cell biology at the Wadsworth Center, and the second in Polar Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
A new genus of Foraminifera (Bowseria spp.) was named "in honor of Dr. Sam Bowser (USA), a protistologist and polar explorer, who has spent many years studying Antarctic monothalamous foraminifera and contributed immensely to our knowledge of their biology.
