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Show GSENM Presents Lecture Series The second annual Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) Summer Lecture Series promises to enlighten and inspire audiences with presentations of new research discoveries and entertaining enter-taining stories from GSENM's past. The lecture series will feature fea-ture 24 guest speakers, including leading scientists from ten different dif-ferent universities, GSENM staff, and local historians, sharing shar-ing their insights into cultural history, archaeology, botany, zoology, geology and paleontology. paleontol-ogy. The free lecture series will be held in the GSENM gateway communities, Boulder, Escalante, Cannonville, Kanab and Big Water; and will run from June through September. To kick off the lecture series, on Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m., Dr. Marjorie Chan, from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, will speak at the newly opened GSENM Visitor Center in Cannonville. Dr. Chan is an expert on the sedimentary rock layers found throughout our area, and will talk on "Sedimentary Clues and Mysteries in Southern Utah." The following night, Friday, June 7, also at 7 p.m. at the Cannonville Visitor Center, Brenda Beitler, a University of Utah doctoral student working with Dr. Chan, will present "Moki Marbles, Iron Concretions and Sandstone Color Differences", an explanation explana-tion of unusual geologic features associated with sandstone rock formations, the topic of their current research. At Escalante Community Hall, Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m., Olivia Messinger and her enthusiastic enthu-siastic "bee crew" research assistants will speak on "The Buzz in Grand Staircase-Escalante Staircase-Escalante National Monument". Messinger is a graduate student of Dr. Terry Griswold at Utah State University, and also heads up a field group from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bee ; Lab. She will dispel common ' myths about bees and their; lifestyles, explain their importance impor-tance as pollinators in harsh desert environments, and discuss dis-cuss how different kinds of bees influence our landscape. On Friday, June 7, at 7 p.m., at Kanab Library, Dr. Stanley Welsh will address "The History of Botanical Exploration in the Grand Staircase Area". Dr. Welsh is a botanist from Brigham Young University, and has recently returned from South Africa to continue his research on plants in the Monument. He will speak on the history and importance of plant collecting in this area. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to discover the scientific sci-entific and cultural richness of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Look for announcement posters and brochures in area businesses for the lecture series program schedule for the complete summer sum-mer lecture schedule. For more information, contact Marietta Eaton at 435-644-4320 or Chris McAlear at 435-644-4302. |
