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Past Program

Earthwatch Adventures

Date

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Speaker

Muriel Horacek

Location

Farrand Hall, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Parking:
On site and free.

Time

Doors open at 7 and program starts at 7:30 pm

Cost

Free

Title

Earthwatch Adventures

Topics

Muriel Horacek will share some of her recent adventures as a participant on various Earthwatch Expeditions. These include: a bird migration project that started in Hungary and ended in Kenya, and a program in Trinidad and St. Croix that monitored the nesting of 800-1000 pound leatherbacked turtles.

About the Speaker

Muriel is a longtime Earthwatch participant and an avid birder. She started birding in the late 1980šs in Florida and first joined an Earthwatch expedition in 1992 after moving to California. As a volunteer field rep for Earthwatch, she gives slide/talks to numerous private and public organizations, as well as presenting to school classes from K thru HS science classes. She write a newsletter that goes to over 2000 people in the Greater L.A area and staffs an Earthwatch booth at several travel shows in Los Angeles and Orange County . In addition, she finds time to go on several Earthwatch expeditions each year as well as to take occasional "birding only" trips.

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