iDig2Learn is Celebrating Roosevelt Island’s Nature with an upcoming series of three fascinating free virtual talks next week and you’re invited to attend.
Wednesday, March 24th – 7pm – 8pm Reacquainting Yourself with the Native & Urban Trees of Roosevelt Island with Carey Russell
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Carey Russell is the host of The Dendro Lab, an online course and soon to be podcast focused on dendrology (the study of trees). He holds a masters degree in landscape ecology and is a certified master naturalist and licensed outdoor guide in New York State. As a naturalist, Carey has worked for the U.S. Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and the Khangai Nuruu National Park of Mongolia. While as a filmmaker, hes a frequent collaborator with director Terrence Malick, and directed the documentary series Tibetan Stories. Currently, he is at work on a photography series titled Literary Landscapes, which documents the natural histories of real landscapes captured in literary fiction, including: Watership Down and My Side of the Mountain. He lives in New York City where he can often be found botanizing in Central Park. careyrussell.com
Thursday, March 25th – 11am to Noon Ants. Super cool. Guest Speaker Chris Johnson from the American Natural History Museum.
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Christine Johnson is the Curatorial Associate in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the AmericanMuseum of Natural History, where her focus is to care for and digitize (database & image) themillions of preserved invertebrate specimens in the collection for use by researchers and the public.Originally arriving in NYC to study ballet, her work on social insects focuses on understandinginteractions between ant social parasites and their hosts, specializing on raider ants. Away from NYCshe conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Helsinki, the Catholic University of Leuvenand Ohio State University; back in NYC she is a member of the Manhattan Solid Waste AdvisoryBoard and has been active in the community garden scene, especially in East Harlem.
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