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Online Lecture: Library Week — Corinne Heyning Laverty’s Channel Islands

Program No. 24631RJ
Join us on Monday, April 24, 2023, at 1 p.m. (ET)/ 10 a.m. (PT) for a one-hour lecture and Q&A about North America’s Galapagos — the historic Channel Islands.

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This National Library Week, we invite you to join Corinne Heyning Laverty — author of the Los Angeles Times bestselling nonfiction book "North America’s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey." Corinne will recount the never-before-told adventures and ambitions of a group of researchers, naturalists and explorers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of unprecedented expeditions. Their mission was to piece together the human history and biological evolution of California’s eight Channel Islands. After acquainting you with the islands’ unique attributes, Corinne will introduce the explorers who set out to do what had never been done before and which has never been replicated — bringing a full contingent of scientists to all eight Channel Islands.

General Notes

Your online lecture will take place live over the course of 1-2 hours. All times are listed in the EASTERN time zone. If you live in a different time zone, please adjust your schedule accordingly. This live online experience uses Zoom Webinar, an easy-to-use web video service that includes closed captioning. All you need is an Internet connection and your computer. You will receive a confirmation email when you enroll, and a reminder email one week and one day before, as well as the morning of the event with a link and instructions on how to tune in. You will not be pictured on screen during the lecture, but you will have the opportunity to ask the instructor live questions using the Q&A box. Unless otherwise noted, all those who enroll in this program receive access to the live event as well as a recording of the lecture that you can watch any time within the two weeks following the live event.
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Corinne Heyning Laverty
Corinne Heyning Laverty is a research associate and fellow at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County; Member, Board of Trustees, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; an associate of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation; and a member of the All Eight Club, a geographic organization that tracks the people who have ever set foot on all eight Channel Islands (total of 223). Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, Western North American Naturalist, Eco Traveler, WhaleWatcher, Pacific Currents, and Hippocampus Magazine, among other publications.

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Corinne Heyning Laverty is a research associate and fellow at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County; Member, Board of Trustees, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; an associate of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation; and a member of the All Eight Club, a geographic organization that tracks the people who have ever set foot on all eight Channel Islands (total of 223). Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, Western North American Naturalist, Eco Traveler, WhaleWatcher, Pacific Currents, and Hippocampus Magazine, among other publications.





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