“Chasing Birds with Satellites–Taking the Pulse of the Planet” will be explicated by Yale’s Walter Jetz at the 9th Annual Darwin Day Dinner to be held Saturday evening February 11.
The popular event features cocktail hour, dinner, science quiz (with prizes!), and will take place at The Water’s Edge at Giovanni’s in Darien.
Walter Jetz, PhD, is associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and Director of the new Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.
Species worldwide are undergoing changes in their distribution, ecology, and behavior with wide-ranging implications for them and for humans. Capturing these changes allows us to better manage their impacts and prevent extinctions.
New ‘big’ biodiversity data– citizen science records, animal tracking data, camera traps – combined with remote and aerial sensing technology now enable a more comprehensive capture of the pulse of our planet.
Walter Jetz, will showcase work in collaboration with NASA and biodiversity monitoring efforts worldwide.
Banquet tables collaborate and enter a science quiz. No prior training is required to enjoy this social event. Winners will earn fame, prizes, and accolades — one more reason the Annual Darwin Day Dinner remains the best science party this side of the Kuiper Belt!
DARWIN DAY is an international celebration of science and humanity held around Charles Darwin’s February 12th birthday, celebrating the discoveries and life of the man, and expressing gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity.
Elsewhere in Connecticut the Yale Humanist Community will celebrate Darwin Day with a free, open to the public talk by evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild at 1 PM on Sunday, February 12 at The Grove (760 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT). All are welcome to attend. Learn more at yalehumanists.com/get-involved/humanist-haven The Humanist Association of Connecticut will be marking Darwin Day with a talk on “Darwin’s Ecological Experiment” at the Unitarian Society of
New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden, on Monday, February 20 at 7:00 PM.
The Darwin Day Dinner is sponsored by The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, the Bartlett Arboretum, Earthplace, the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, The Wilton Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the Unitarian Church in Westport, the Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County (HFFC), and the Norwalk Public Schools Science Department,
6 pm Cocktail Hour, 7 pm Full Course Dinner. The event is open to the public, all are welcome, and everyone will likely go home smarter.
For invitation and reservation form go to www.darwindayct.org