Ranger Lecture: Science on the Edge

As a part of the Ranger Lecture Series in Flagstaff, called Conversations on the Edge, the Grand Canyon Association and Cline Library at Northern Arizona University will host Science on the Edge: Preserving Grand Canyon National Park’s Natural and Cultural Resources. Martha Hahn, Chief of Science and Resource Management, Grand Canyon National Park, will highlight some of park's current projects, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the role the Division of Science and Resource Management plays in preserving and protecting Grand Canyon.

Hahn has been Chief of Science and Resource Management at Grand Canyon National Park since May 2007. She previously worked at Grand Canyon in the mid-1980s. She oversaw the Glen Canyon Dam Environmental Studies and Colorado River resource management and planning, and served as the management assistant to the Superintendent.

When:

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
7:00 p.m.

Where:

Cline Library
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Cost:

Free and no reservations are required.

Science on the Edge: Preserving Grand Canyon National Park's Natural and Cultural Resources is part of the 2009 Ranger Lecture Series in Flagstaff, called Conversations on the Edge. The lectures feature specialists from Grand Canyon National Park's Division of Science and Resource Management speaking about the National Park Service's work to monitor, manage and preserve Grand Canyon's natural and cultural resources for present and future generations.

Conversations on the Edge lectures are sponsored by the Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon National Park and Cline Library.

If you can't attend the lecture, you'll be able to see the video on the new GCA YouTube Video Channel.


For more info: GCA Community Lecture Series

Riordan Mansion Brown Bag Lunch Lectures

2009 Brown Bag Lunch Lectures at Riordan Mansion are set. Brown Bag Lunches scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month at 12:15 pm, on the front veranda of the historic 1904 Riordan Mansion. Stop by with lunch for a different presentation each Tuesday.

• Mar 10: En Vogue: 90 Years of Riordan Women’s Fashion
• Apr 14: Browsing the Bookshelves at Riordan Mansion: Topics and Titles from the Early Years
• May 12: Arizona’s Amazing Women
• Jun 9: Victorian Fashions in Arizona Territory
• Aug 11: Call of the Canyon
• Sep 8: Jerome in the News
• Oct 13: Arizona Mines and Minerals
• Nov 10: “Mark Twain in the American West”
• Dec 8: Christmas Music during the Riordan Years

Contact the Park:

(928) 779-4395

Riordan Mansion SHP
409 West Riordan Rd
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Riordan Mansion Evening Slide Presentation Series

2009 Evening Slide Presentation Series at Riordan Mansion

• Mar 7: Protecting Historic Sites during Wildland Fires
• Mar 28: Protecting the Archaeology and Petroglyphs of Picture Canyon
• Apr 18: Stone Landmarks: Flagstaff’s Historic Buildings and Geologic Landscapes
• May 2: Arizona's War Town: Flagstaff and World War II
• Jun 20: "Louis Akin's Lost Bride: The Photos, Poems and Adventures of Mai Richie Reed"
• Jul 11: Two Guns and Route 66
• Aug 29: “Ain’t it Purty”: Tourist Impressions of Grand Canyon

All presentations held at 7 p.m.

Riordan Mansion SHP
409 West Riordan Rd
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Programs are free but reservations are recommended due to limited availability. Please call (928) 779-4395.

GCA Community Lecture Series

The Grand Canyon Association Community Lecture Series continues February 18, 2009, with Wendell Duffield. He's a northern Arizona geologist who will speak about the San Francisco Volcanic Field that runs from Williams to Sunset Crater.

Cline Library
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff
7:00 p.m.

You can learn about Duffield's book at Volcanoes of Northern Arizona: Sleeping Giants of the Grand Canyon Region. Also, the Grand Canyon Association Bookstore should be set up to sell the book at the lecture.

I highly recommend the book and I'm really looking forward to the lecture.

Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau

In an earlier post I mentioned Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, by Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney. For this background, see The Coconino Chronicles August 11, 2008.

We were able to attend their lecture on Wednesday night. The book arrived from Amazon on Monday, so the timing was just right.

The book is as good as I thought it would be. You can get a feel for what Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is all about on Dr. Blakey's website.

The lecture gave a really helpful overview and Wayne Ranney talked about how the maps are made, which was extremely interesting. The video of the lecture should be available soon onthe Grand Canyon Association website. I will post that update as soon as I get an update.

We've been following Dr. Blakey through his website for a long time. It is great to see the publication of this book. If you want to purchase it, I would highly recommend Amazon.com because the price is so good.

Hole in the Rock Expedition at Cline Library

The 2008 Community Lecture Series begins at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night, September 17, at Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. The first lecture, by Stewart Aitchison, is The Last Wagon Train: The Hole-in-the Rock Expedition. Aitchison is a zoologist, geologist and naturalist.

Get more details at Grand Canyon Association Calendar.

We're really looking forward to this season of lectures.

Flagstaff Festival of Science 2008

Mark your calendars for Zoom Into Science! Be sure to start now to make plans to attend the many events sheduled during the Flagstaff Festival of Science, September 26 - October 5, 2008.
Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and First Light, will be the Shoemaker Keynote speaker on Friday, September 26. Then for ten days, if your time is limited, you'll have to make some tough decisions about what to see. Among your choices are the NAU Campus Observatory, the Interferometer Tour at Anderson Mesa, several lectures at Lowell Observatory, the Rim Walk at Meteor Crater, and Dragonflies of Northern Arizona at MNA.

Get all the details at Flagstaff Festival of Science. All activities are free, but don't wait to make plans because you need reservations for some events.

Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau

Come October, we will be able to hold in our hands the landscapes of hundreds of millions of years of geologic history. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, by Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney will be published. You can pre-order it at Amazon.com. I already did.

If you're a fan of Ron Blakey at NAU and the amazing maps he makes available to us on the Internet or of Wayne Ranney and his writing about the geologic history of the Sedona, Verde Valley and the Grand Canyon, this new book is a long awaited collaboration.

You can read about Ancient Lanscapes of the Colorado Plateau at The University of Arizona Press or at the Grand Canyon Association.

And there's more, the two authors will be giving a lecture, Tracing the Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, as part of the Canyon Country Community Lecture Series. See the details on the website, about the lecture in Prescott on Sunday, November 16, 2008 and in Flagstaff on Wednesday, November 19, 2008.

This is really something to look forward to--one more contribution to our understanding of the Colorado Plateau by these two brilliant geologists.