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PRESENTER: Dr. Carly Anne York & Jasmin Graham
BOOK: The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science & Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
Dr. Carly Anne York is an animal behaviorist and physiologist who studies how animals interact with their environments. She teaches biology courses within the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Additionally, she is an active science communicator who has collaborated with TED-ED on the creation of science lessons and participated in numerous YouTube shows and podcasts. She is also the author of two nonfiction science books for children, A Day in the Life: Horses and Queens of the Jungle. She lives in North Carolina.
Jasmin Graham is a shark scientist and environmental educator who specializes in elasmobranch (shark and ray) ecology and evolution. She has a passion for science education and making science more accessible to everyone. Graham is the president and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS), an organization dedicated to supporting women of color in shark sciences. She is excited to help open doors for more underrepresented minority students to join the exciting field of marine science.
In The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven science has led to breakthroughs big and small. Got wind power? You might have humpback whales to thank. Know anything about particle physics? Turns out there is a ferret close to the heart of it all. And if you want to keep salmon around, be thankful for that cannon! The research itself can seem bizarre, but it drives our economy. And what’s more, this stuff is simply cool.
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist is an uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark.
Sponsored by the Dr. Elizabeth Fletcher Dishongh Charitable Trust
AGE GROUP: | Teens ages 12-19 | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Science & Nature | Literature & Language |
TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | RonRobinsonTheater |
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The Ron Robinson Theater is a 315-seat multi-purpose event venue. Part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Main Library campus, it is designed to provide programs for all ages including films, music performances, plays, readings, lectures, speakers, and children’s activities. The theater is equipped with a state-of-the-art DCI-compliant Barco digital cinema projection system and 32′ wide retractable screen; and, a versatile sound system capable of Dolby 5.1 surround audio for movies, with a CL3 digital mixing console with ample inputs for traditional music concerts.
