Refreshments with Refreshing 'Ologists

The Mono Lake Committee is a non-profit citizens' group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Mono Basin ecosystem, educating the public about Mono Lake and the impacts on the environment of excessive water use, and promoting cooperative solutions that protect Mono Lake and meet real water needs without transferring environmental problems to other areas.

Mono Lake Committee

Join us this summer for the Mono Lake Committee's Refreshments with Refreshing 'Ologists lecture series, featuring scientists presenting their work in the region. Lectures happen at 4:00pm in the Mono Lake Committee Information Center & Bookstore gallery. Presentations last about one hour and include light refreshments.
Join us for these scheduled talks:
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September 10 (Tuesday): "Water From Rock: Rock Glaciers as Un(der)-Explored Hydrologic Reservoirs and Climate Refugia" with US Forest Service Senior Scientist Connie Millar. Despite their ubiquity, rock glaciers are little-recognized landforms of the high Sierra Nevada and other Great Basin mountains. Long studied globally by glacial specialists, their unique properties as enduring sources of cold-water springs and lakes, and their related roles in providing habitat for cold-adapted plants and animals (such as American pikas), are only recently being understood by conservation scientists. Rock glaciers and related landforms (e.g., talus slopes) serve as long-term alpine water sources and ecological refugia as global climates change and temperatures rise. In this talk Millar will describe her studies on rock glaciers of the Great Basin mountain ranges, highlighting their surprising physical processes and explaining how they can serve critical roles in climate adaptation.
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Finished talks:
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July 10: "A New Detection of the Sierra Nevada Red Fox" with California Department of Fish & Wildlife researcher Brian Hatfield.
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July 17: "Save the Pupfish!: History, Water, and the Surprising Persistence of the Devils Hole Pupfish" with environmental historian Kevin Brown, PhD.
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July 24: "The Science of Storytelling" with author Kristine Zeigler.
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July 31: "Conserving Giant Sequoia and Coast Redwood in a Time of Global Change" with Kristen Shive, Director of Science for Save the Redwoods League.
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August 7: "Extent of the Last Glacial Maximum (Tioga) Glaciation in Yosemite and the Mono Basin" with Yosemite National Park Geologist Greg Stock.
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August 14: "Dry Snow/Wet Snow Recipes for Unusual Avalanches: Avalanche Forecasting Challenges in a Changing Climate" with snow scientist and avalanche forecaster Sue Burak.
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August 21: "From Mono Lake to Mar Chiquita: How Are the Phalaropes Faring the 21st Century?" with conservation scientist Ryan Carle.
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August 28: "Assessing climate vulnerability in the highest-elevation breeding birds on the continent: North America's Rosy-finches" with UC Santa Cruz PhD candidate Tim Brown. 
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September 4: "From Chemistry to Community: Sage-Grouse Conservation Across the Sagebrush Sea" with UC Davis PhD candidate, Eric Tymstra.
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Lectures will be listed as they are scheduled, so be sure to check back to reserve your seat for upcoming talks. We hope to see you there!

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