Wings and Waves: Adventures with Albatrosses and Whales from Japan to Patagonia Monday, April 14, 2025, 7:30 - 9:00 pm Cornell Lab of Ornithology Auditorium, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 Diane Ackerman Join nature writer, Diane Ackerman, for an evening exploring two of her research projects spanning the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Journey with her from the breeding grounds of the Short-tailed Albatross on a remote Japanese island, where these magnificent seabirds are recovering from near extinction, to the nursery waters of Patagonia where southern right whale mothers pause with their calves on their way to the rich feeding grounds of Antarctica. Bio: Author, poet and naturalist, Diane Ackerman has written over two dozen works of nonfiction and poetry, including The New York Times bestsellers The Zookeeper's Wife, A Natural History of the Senses, and The Human Age. Diane has received the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing, Stephen Hawking Medal for Communicating Science, P.E.N. Henry David Thoreau Award for Nature Writing, Orion Book Award, John O'Donohue Poetry Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Lavan Poetry Prize, and an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College, among other honors, as well as being celebrated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. Several of her books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Circle Critics Award finalists. In 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Diane has an M.F.A. and PhD from Cornell and has taught at a number of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. Her essays about nature and human nature have been appearing for decades in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, Smithsonian, National Geographic, and many other journals. She hosted a five-hour PBS NOVA series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. A feature film based on The Zookeeper’s Wife appeared in 2017. Doors open at 6:45 pm, cookies and socializing until 7:20 pm, reading of the basin bird list at 7:20; meeting starts at 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public! --
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