WSKG Public Media is hosting a virtual event: Age of Nature Screening & Conversation on October 13, 2020 from 7:00PM to 8:30PM.
Join us for a screening and panel discussion surrounding nature and the outdoors in celebration of PBS's The Age of Nature.
Join WSKG and Science Pub as we celebrate the upcoming three-part series The Age of Nature with a panel discussion focused on nature and conservation. Our panel will take a look at nature and the outdoors while examining how we balance human growth and conservation.
Each episode will focus on three stories that take us beyond the traditional natural history series to answer three questions:
What have our past mistakes taught us about nature?
How is our understanding of nature changing the way we live?
As the challenges we face mount, where are we heading next?
The Age of Nature brings together wildlife filmmaking, science, anthropology, and history to shed light on perhaps the biggest story of our time – how an increasing awareness of nature is changing the way we live on earth.
This is a virtual event. You will receive a reminder email including the link needed for attending leading up to October 13th.
Guest Speakers:
Elaine Spacher has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from SUNY Brockport (Brockport, NY) and a Master’s degree in Biology from The College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA). Elaine’s studies in college focused on ecology, animal behavior and ornithology, and more specifically, cavity and colonial nesting bird species. Elaine has been interested in environmental issues for over 3 decades. She has worked at several nature centers and museums including Genesee Country Museum’s Nature Center in Mumford, NY and the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Elaine has been on the Board at Spencer Crest Nature Center in Corning, NY and is currently a Board member of the Chemung County Chamber of Commerce. Elaine has been the Executive Director at Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum in Elmira for the past 17 years.
Ben Mertus is a PhD student in the anthropology department at The Ohio State University. His research seeks to understand pathways of responsible human co-existence with nonhuman beings in this new epoch that many are calling "the Anthropocene". He is particularly interested in ecotourism as a driver of environmental sustainability and cultural continuation in postcolonial First Nations communities in Canada.
Waterman Conservation Education Center Educators TBD
About The Age of Nature:
THE AGE OF NATURE is a three-part series that follows the people and animals at the center of this shift. Each episode focuses on three stories that take us far beyond the traditional natural history series to discover nature as a character with its own rules and behavior. Watch The Age of Nature on WSKG at 10:00 PM Wednesdays, October 14 - 28.
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