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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.
Allen Marquette
About:
Mr. Allen Marquette has been the Community Education Program Coordinator for the Prince William Sound Science Center for the last eight years. This includes managing a Discovery Room program set up for K-6 graders. He also manages a community education program that provides science lectures to the community of Cordova on a weekly basis. He states, "I love science and the ability to share my passion with others... To share the wow factor in science... especially with kids!"
Marquette is an experienced radio host who writes and records his own weekly science programs aired on the NPR station in Valdez, Alaska, with listeners all over Prince William Sound and the Copper River Basin.
One of his many interests includes the plants, animals, and climate of Alaska during the Pleistocene epoch. He also lectures on dinosaurs of Alaska. With new dinosaur discoveries occurring every year in Alaska, this lecture is updated regularly to include all of the latest discoveries and research being done within the state. Marquette also owns a business called 'Paleo-Educational Products,' which includes a teacher's supply catalog of geological and paleontological specimens and collections of fossils, crystals, and minerals.
Marquette is an experienced speaker who has traveled to communities in Idaho, Montana, Arizona and Alaska giving presentations on geological and paleontological themes. His science knowledge is diverse with experience presenting programs in astronomy, oceanography, and geology.
Potential lectures include:
- Pleistocene Alaska: The amazing and unusual animals that lived in Alaska during the last great ice age (lecture includes many hands-on objects such as skulls, teeth, bones, claws, and hair from Alaska's extinct animals).
- Dinosaurs in Alaska: Alaska is the new hot spot for dinosaur discoveries and will add greatly to our knowledge of how dinosaurs lived (lecture includes replicas of dinosaur teeth and claws from Alaska).
