Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Contact: Kimberly Kahn · kjkahn@loyno.edu · 5048652599
Location: Monroe Hall Room 610
Environmental Roundtables are facilitated discussions of important environmental issues, hosted by the Loyola University Environment Program. Facilitators include Environment Program students, faculty and guest hosts.
When: April 11, 2019
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Where: Monroe Hall 610
Who: Frank Moore, PhD
Title: Distinguished Professor from The University of Southern Mississippi
Title of Talk: A Place to Land? Conservation Biology of Songbirds during Migration
Dr. Moore will focus on a scale-dependent perspective on habitat use when migrants stopover in relation to the Gulf of Mexico and conservation implications.
Lunch will be provided!
Find more information on our website: http://cas.loyno.edu/environment/environmental-roundtable
For questions please contact Dr. Eric Hardy at emhardy@loyno.edu or Kimberly Kahn at kjkahn@loyno.edu.
Time: 4 pm to 5 pm
Contact: Mona Wolfe · rkwolfe@loyno.edu · 5048652288
Location: Miller Hall Room 114
Rachel Nuwer, Biology Honors '07, is an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to the New York Times, National Geographic, and Scientific American.
Come hear her "behind the scenes" stories of hanging out with pangolin poachers in Vietnamese jungles; surveying Lao black markets for rhino horn, ivory and tiger penis; counting elephants from the back of a bumpy, four-seat Cessna flying over Chad; and other adventures spanning a dozen countries for her latest book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking.
A book signing will follow the seminar. For more information please contact Patricia Dorn, dorn@loyno.edu, (504) 865-2288.