Upcoming Speaker Tours
View information about current and upcoming tours below. If you have questions about the program, please contact Judy Fahnestock (avs [at] arcus [dot] org).
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Dr. Jennifer Burns, University of Alaska-Anchorage Professor of Biology, will travel from Anchorage, Alaska to Memphis, Tennessee, to participate in a week’s worth of education and public outreach activities with Alex Eilers of the Pink Palace Museum. Alex and Dr. Burns have just returned from an Antarctic expedition studying Weddell seals in the Ross Sea through the PolarTREC Program. You can read more about their expedition here:...
Read moreThe feature event of this tour was a screening of the documentary film “Drums of Winter”, followed by a question-and-answer session with director Leonard Kamerling. “Drums of Winter” explores the role of dance and music in the culture of the Yupik Eskimo people as they face pressure from the outside world to abandon their traditional lifestyle. The film was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2006. The film was shown on the campus of Western Oregon University in...
Read moreDr. Osgood had a full schedule of events (Dr. Osgood's Tour Schedule) planned for her time in Yakutsk. She delivered a series of lectures and activities intended for students at North-Eastern Federal University that focused on oral traditions, how stories live on, and evaluating how stories have been recorded and shared. As part of this...
Read moreOn this tour, Karsten stopped to give a presentation entitled "Necessary Journeys" at Dartmouth College. Karsten highlighted his travels with his wife, Leanne Allison, and shared stories and wisdom from his trips. Once at Sterling College, he joined students in Sterling's Vertebrate Natural History on a tracking field trip to Babcock Preserve. Later Karsten gave a public presentation entitled "Canoe Exploration of the Canadian North" in which he discussed his latest...
Read moreAuthor Charles Wohlforth traveled to Everett, Washington to present and discuss his book "The Fate of Nature" with seventy-five high school students enrolled in the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA). All ORCA students had prepared for his visit by reading and discussing his book prior to his coming. His discussion focused on the impact of human activity on the arctic and marine environments, and how culture affects our creation of personal and social intensions for use of natural...
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