Join the Moab Information Center on Thursdays throughout the summer months for the Moab lecture series, where local scientists and park rangers discuss their work!
Lectures are hosted at the Moab Information Center (3015 S. Hwy 191) at 6 p.m.
June 19 ~ Scott Hotaling ~ Climate Change in Utah’s High Mountains: Implications for Natural Resources and Biodiversity ~
Climate change is proceeding rapidly at high-elevations and leading to dramatic changes in snowpack and streamflow’s with implications for natural resources and biodiversity. In this talk, Dr. Scott Hotaling, an Assistant Professor at Utah State University in the Department of Watershed Sciences, will talk through how Utah is changing, what these changes mean for natural resources in the regions including aquatic biodiversity, and an overlooked, potentially important resource for Utah under climate change: rock glaciers. Rock glaciers are masses of debris-covered ice common in the region (including in the La Sals!) and are resistant to climate change-induced ice recession. Dr. Scott Hotaling is a new Canyonlands Natural History Association Discovery Pool Recipient!
June 26 ~ Robert Anderson ~ Juneteenth: Freedom Day ~
Celebrate Juneteenth! Ranger Robby will discuss the history and importance of the Federal Holiday that memorializes the last enslaved African Americans being freed from slavery, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
Looking ahead
July 10 | Site Stewardship Program by Ian Wright (State Historic Preservation Office)
July 17 | Our Time in the Parks by Rhodes Smartt
July 24 | Resilient Food Webs in a Changing Environment by Moria Robinson
August 7 | Soundscapes by Robert Anderson
August 28 | Geology of Canyonlands by Rhodes Smartt
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