On Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Shu-Ju Wang and Lynn Yarne about the new mural at Lincoln High School called Restoration Roadmaps. They talk about how they used historical documents to come up with the design of animals and plants surrounding a map of Goose Hollow, the importance of consulting students about what they wanted included on
Umbanhowar to deliver spring Mellby lecture on the ecology of fire
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Charles Umbanhowar Jr. will deliver the 2021 spring Mellby Lecture on March 16.
St. Olaf College Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies Charles Umbanhowar Jr. will deliver this year’s spring Mellby Lecture, titled “Future, Present, Past? Reconstructing the Ecological History of Fire Using Charcoal.”
The virtual talk will take place on Tuesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The lecture will be streamed and archived online.
In his lecture, Umbanhowar will explore how human actions and the natural world impact instances of fire, and vice versa. “One of the questions I will be addressing is how climate impacts fire and more specifically what combination of wet or dry years results in more burning,” Umbanhowar says. “I am especially interested in thinking about how fires have impacted the distribution of fo