Cafe Scientifique
Event description
Celebrate International Biodiversity Day with an amazing line-up of guest speakers sponsored by RSNZ.
Lindsey Conrow – ‘A bird in the (ruined) basement is worth two in the braids’ or ‘Gulls just wanna have fun’ #GullPower
Gail Ingram – ‘Poems that fly, crawl and stick in -sect your mind’
Sara Kross – ‘A tail of 2 cities: opportunities and risks for wildlife in our urban jungle’
Rebecca (Bex) Le Grice – ‘Funky flies’
Morgane Merien – ‘Life lessons from a sentient twig’ (Yes, there will opportunities to take a selfie with a stick insect!)
Lindsey is a geographer at in the School of Earth & Environment at the University of Canterbury
Gail is a local poet, and author of three collections, including anthology (n.) a collection of flowers (Pūkeko Publications 2024) and Some Bird (SVP 2023)
Sara is an ecologist and conservation biologist in the School of Biology at the University of Canterbury
Bex is an entomologist and natural history curator at Canterbury Museum
Morgane is an entomologist and science communicator at Canterbury Museum, and host of the TVNZ series ‘Bug Hunter’
Food and drink will be available to purchase.
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