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On Thursday, November 18th at 6pm join author Thor Hanson for a reading and discussion of his newly published book Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change, which explores the ways plants and animals adjust to climate change: move, adapt, or die. While humans dither about what our responses should be, other species have been getting on with it.
Author and biologist Thor Hanson is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Switzer Environmental Fellow, and winner of the John Burroughs Medal. His other books include Buzz, The Triumph of Seeds, Feathers, Bartholomew Quill, and The Impenetrable Forest.
Hanson’s research and conservation activities have taken him around the globe. He has studied Central American trees and songbirds, nest predation in Tanzania, and the grisly feeding habits of African vultures. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda, where he helped establish the mountain gorilla tourism program in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and he has also helped manage a brown bear tourism project for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. He often works at the interface between natural and human systems, and has conducted research on habitat fragmentation, endangered species, and the ecological impacts of warfare.