Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture “Bicycling, Birding and #BLM Across America in a Summer of Chaos”

November 18, 2020

On October 29th, The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies & The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History co-sponsored the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture. Guest speaker, Dr. Scott Edwards (Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University) delivered his virtual presentation entitled “Bicycling, Birding and #BLM Across America in a Summer of Chaos”. If you are interested in viewing, please click the video above. 

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture 

Bicycling, Birding and #BLM Across America in a Summer of Chaos

“During summer 2020 I undertook a 76-day, ~3800 mile bicycle trip across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, encountering extraordinary people, landscapes, and birds as I wheeled my way through towns on the brink of collapse, Native American lands, and vast private ranches. Witnessing people’s reactions to #BlackLivesMatter and other pressing issues taught me about the forces causing division in this country and how we can mend them.”

Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

(This *virtual* lecture was co-sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)

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