Watch Full Lectures

Lecture date: February 28, 2019. Sara Mandel discusses her conservation work with penguins in South Africa.

Lecture date: February 19, 2019. Jessica Whited discusses her research on salamanders and their ability to regenerate limbs.

Lecture date: February 13, 2019. James Gesualdi discusses current approaches to animal care at zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks.

Lecture date: February 5, 2019. Katie Finch discusses her work with the Great Lakes Piping Plover Project, which monitors the vulnerable habitat in which the plover nests and rears and rehabilitates chicks from abandoned nests.

Lecture date: January 16, 2019. Curtis Marean discusses how human evolution may have been impacted by living along coasts.

Lecture date: January 9, 2019. Ecologist Jeremy Jackson discusses his book coauthored with journalist Steve Chapple, Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises.

Lecture date: November 13, 2018. Nichols discusses innovations in aquaculture and shares photographs and recipes demonstrating why seafood should be at the center of our diets.

Lecture date: November 6, 2018. William Cooper has studied the butterflies of Iguazú Falls, Argentina, for several years. In this lecture he shares his photos and recounts his experiences visiting the falls.

Lecture date: November 1, 2018. Mike Mitchell discusses his work to turn a problem fish into an economic boon in Mexico.

Lecture date: October 16, 2018. Dr. Greg Rau discusses the unprecedented nature and magnitude of the stresses the ocean now faces, some new approaches to avoiding or lessening the impacts, and the need for policies that support the emergence, evaluation, and development of new marine and planetary management strategies.