Posted by: Julia Swan, Communications
Dr. Patricia Kramer, a University of Washington anthropologist, speaks at the Pacific Science Center tonight in the penultimate lecture of the "Lucy Talks" lecture series. Dr. Kramer will discuss how anthropologists decipher clues from fossils to discover how and why our earliest hominid ancestors walked upright.
Last month, when Drs. Vicki Cassman and Nancy Odegaard, both conservators, came to Seattle to present at the Lucy Talks series, I had the pleasure of sitting down with them for an interview about the role of conservators and the challenges they faced as they advised the Ethiopian government on the preservation and shipping of Lucy’s bones. Watch the video here:
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January 09, 2009
November 12, 2008
Inexpensive, Educational and Fun!
Posted by: Karin Hoffman, Communications
Looking for something to do tonight? Come to the Burke Museum and listen to local photographer Paul Bannick talk about the adventures behind his amazing wildlife photos featured in his book The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds. Starting at 7 pm tonight Bannick will share some of the fascinating stories behind collecting these photographs, many of which were captured while kayaking, snowshoeing or hiking around the Pacific Northwest. Tickets are still available - $5 at the door and FREE for Burke members!
If your dance card is full for tonight, then check out the second lecture offered in our Lucy Talks series tomorrow night at Pacific Science Center (Eames Auditorium.) Dr. Katherine Taylor, a forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner Office, will present “Looking Through Time: How modern methods are shedding new light on old bones.” Dr. Taylor will discuss how advancements in the science of forensic anthropology inform the study of ancient hominids. Tickets are $5 at the door and FREE for Burke members!
Photo by Paul Bannick, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds.
Looking for something to do tonight? Come to the Burke Museum and listen to local photographer Paul Bannick talk about the adventures behind his amazing wildlife photos featured in his book The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds. Starting at 7 pm tonight Bannick will share some of the fascinating stories behind collecting these photographs, many of which were captured while kayaking, snowshoeing or hiking around the Pacific Northwest. Tickets are still available - $5 at the door and FREE for Burke members!
If your dance card is full for tonight, then check out the second lecture offered in our Lucy Talks series tomorrow night at Pacific Science Center (Eames Auditorium.) Dr. Katherine Taylor, a forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner Office, will present “Looking Through Time: How modern methods are shedding new light on old bones.” Dr. Taylor will discuss how advancements in the science of forensic anthropology inform the study of ancient hominids. Tickets are $5 at the door and FREE for Burke members!Photo by Paul Bannick, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds.
October 14, 2008
What Can Lucy Teach Us?
Posted by Karin Hoffman
The west coast premiere of Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia is at Pacific Science Center now through March 8, 2009. Come face-to-face with the world’s most famous fossil Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis (say that three times fast), an ancestor to humans in the course of evolution. Through the display of over 100 artifacts spanning over 200,000 years, visitors can experience Ethiopia, Lucy's homeland.
The Burke Museum is hosting a series of lectures that take an in-depth look at human evolution, forensic anthropology and the challenges of fossil conservation. The series culminates in a not-to-be-missed lecture to be given by Dr. Donald Johanson, the scientist who discovered Lucy in 1974.
The first lecture is this coming Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm. Dr. Mark Collard’s talk titled “From Lucy to lactose: The Evolution of Human Adaptation” will discuss how humans have evolved and adapted to a changing world from the emergence of the hominid lineage to the present day.
Tickets are still available for this and other talks in this series. All lectures are held at the Pacific Science Center, Eames Auditorium, with the exception of Dr. Johanson’s lecture, which will be held at UW’s Kane Hall. You can purchase tickets through the Pacific Science Center in person, by calling 1-888-772-8491, or online. Burke Member prices range from free to $10 (plus service charges). For more information visit our Web site.
Here’s a little tease for upcoming lectures:
November 13, 2008: Dr. Katherine Taylor – “Looking Through Time: How modern methods are shedding new light on old bones”
December 11, 2008: Drs. Nancy Odegaard and Vicki Cassman – “Travels with Lucy-or how to pack when you’re over 3 million years old”
January 8, 2009: Dr. Patricia Kramer – “Lucy Walks: Functional morphology and the evolution of bipedalism”
February 5, 2009: Dr. Donald Johanson – “Lucy’s Legacy”
The west coast premiere of Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia is at Pacific Science Center now through March 8, 2009. Come face-to-face with the world’s most famous fossil Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis (say that three times fast), an ancestor to humans in the course of evolution. Through the display of over 100 artifacts spanning over 200,000 years, visitors can experience Ethiopia, Lucy's homeland.
The Burke Museum is hosting a series of lectures that take an in-depth look at human evolution, forensic anthropology and the challenges of fossil conservation. The series culminates in a not-to-be-missed lecture to be given by Dr. Donald Johanson, the scientist who discovered Lucy in 1974.The first lecture is this coming Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm. Dr. Mark Collard’s talk titled “From Lucy to lactose: The Evolution of Human Adaptation” will discuss how humans have evolved and adapted to a changing world from the emergence of the hominid lineage to the present day.
Tickets are still available for this and other talks in this series. All lectures are held at the Pacific Science Center, Eames Auditorium, with the exception of Dr. Johanson’s lecture, which will be held at UW’s Kane Hall. You can purchase tickets through the Pacific Science Center in person, by calling 1-888-772-8491, or online. Burke Member prices range from free to $10 (plus service charges). For more information visit our Web site.
Here’s a little tease for upcoming lectures:
November 13, 2008: Dr. Katherine Taylor – “Looking Through Time: How modern methods are shedding new light on old bones”
December 11, 2008: Drs. Nancy Odegaard and Vicki Cassman – “Travels with Lucy-or how to pack when you’re over 3 million years old”
January 8, 2009: Dr. Patricia Kramer – “Lucy Walks: Functional morphology and the evolution of bipedalism”
February 5, 2009: Dr. Donald Johanson – “Lucy’s Legacy”
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