SCI Talks Presented by Mammoth

Four TEDx-style talks from local scientists, artists, and educators. In each 15-minute talk, the speakers will share what drives their enthusiasm for their field of study. Robert Long, Artist Join Robert Long for a showcase of his detailed nature illustration, created under the pen name, NearsightGraphite. Highlighting his process, he’ll discuss the power of the observer and the illustrator’s role as a distiller of torrents of visual data. Robert’s artwork amplifies intimate, obscure forms of life to give underrepresented organisms louder voices and to visualize their self-worlds. He aims to inspire curiosity in the intricacies of the natural world, and by extension, promote nature conservation. Inès Montaño, Quantum Scientist Dr. Inès Montaño, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department for Applied Physics and Material Science at NAU, is fascinated by quantum science. In her talk, she will discuss how things that sound like science fiction are indeed real, are already shaping our world today, and how we are actually still at the very beginning of this next technological revolution which has the potential to fundamentally change all of our lives. John Taylor, Terra BIRDS Nature is our best teacher, and yet school grounds in America do not typically include much wildness, nor are gardens a standard. Flagstaff non-profit Terra BIRDS joins a national movement to invite nature into the daily school experience and leads students and teachers as stewards of their school grounds. Hear from John Taylor on why we want ‘Green Schoolyards’ and how do we create and sustain them?