Sci Buzz Cafe: Richard Ely
March 27th 6:30 to 8:00 PM Sebastopol’s Penny University BRINGING SCIENCE & CURIOSITY BACK INTO CULTURE
Richard Ely: Evolution and the American Landscape:
A Billion Years of Change
This coming Thursday, March 27 Richard Ely will give the SBC talk and you would be sorry to miss it. Anyone who lives in a geologic smorgasbord such as Sonoma County should wonder how the place got this way. But not only did our county become assembled from geologic flotsam, jetsam and detritus but our part of the world seems to have resembled a giant garage sale. Richard will give an illustrated talk about the last half billion years and the astonishing dynamics of what, in ancient history, was supposed to be an earthly landscape that behaved itself.
Take a time travel tour of the geography of North America from 550 million years ago to the present. This talk will feature PowerPoint projections of about 45 exquisitely detailed paleogeographic maps prepared by Ron Blakey of the University of Northern Arizona. Geologists consider these maps some of the best ever done, both for their accuracy and beauty. Watch mountain ranges rise and fall, continents collide, oceans open and close, the sea repeatedly advance and retreat across the continent. Richard Ely is a consulting geologist with a lifelong history of interest in paleogeography.
Science Buzz Cafe http://sciencebuzzcafe.org/Sebastopol/
A place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a bowl of soup, people can meet to discuss the latest ideas of science and technology which are changing our lives.
The Science Buzz Cafe is dedicated to the night science tradition. It is for professional scientists who do it for money and for the amateurs who do it for love. Professionals have science for their spouses. The amateurs have it for their mistresses. The Science Buzz Cafe honors both species of lover.
WHEN: Thursdays 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Come a few minutes early to get a cup of coffee and settle in.
WHERE: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472
