"Horizons 2012"
All presentations will be given at 7 pm (doors open at 6) in the IMAX Theater at the Challenger Learning Center on Kleman Plaza in downtown Tallahassee. There is an admission charge to cover the cost of renting the facility. The price of a single program is $12 ($6 for TSS members), while the price for the entire series is $40 ($20 for TSS members). Details are on the TSS web site. There is a $10 cost for a student membership in TSS.
Feb 23:
"The state of the Space Industry in Florida"
by Frank DiBello, President of Space Florida
March 22:
"Run Silent, Run Deep: New life on WWII shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico", by Thomas Shirley, marine biologist at Texas A&M
April 25:
"My Life as a Turkey: One man's study of nature and nurture in the wilds of Sopchoppy, FL" by Joe Hutto.
I have heard Joe talk about his experiences as the parent of a brood of wild turkeys that he raised from eggs and taught to forage and roost in the wild. (This was featured in a PBS/BBC Nature program last fall.) It is an amazing story.
May 24:
"The ecology of a southern nature writer"
by Janisse Ray, author of The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
who grew up and still lives in Baxter, GA.
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