How Community Science is Coming Ful l-Circle.
Two centuries ago\, in the first half of the nineteenth century\, every scient ist was a citizen scientist. Then came professionalization\, and “amateu r” became a dirty word. But now\, in the twenty-first century\, thanks t o the open science revolution\, science is back to square one\, and everyo ne—in garden sheds\, at kitchen tables\, and in the backyard—can once again fully participate in the scientific world.
In his lecture The Urban Naturalist\, Menno Schilthuizen takes you on a journey of discovery with a new generation of citizen scientists who\, armed with apps\, smartp hones\, mini-microscopes\, and even homemade DNA labs\, view urban nature with fresh eyes and make groundbreaking discoveries. These are people who are rediscovering the romance of the 19th century naturalist and distil ne w values and meaning from it.
With: Menno Schilthui zen.
.Menno Schilthuizen (1965) is a professor of evolution and biodiversity at Leiden University and a senior researcher at the National Natural History Museum 'Naturalis' in Leiden\, the Netherlands. His scientific research h as involved a variety of subjects\, such as the evolution of snail shells\ , beetle penises\, insect feeding on invasive plants\, and the biodiversit y of caves and limestone hills. This has taken him to lots of places\, fro m the mountains of Crete (where he did his PhD)\, caves in Montenegro and the heart of the rainforest of Borneo (where he worked for six year)\, to city parks in the Netherlands.
Besides his academic work\, he has al ways been active as a science communicator\, writing books and articles fo r the general public\, and giving lectures. Some of his more notable appea rances are his TED and TED-Ed lectures\, and his appearance with Isabella Rossellini at the New York Public Library. His latest book\, The Urban Nat uralist\, encourages everybody to become a community scientist and begin e xploring the flora and fauna of our cities as the exciting\, new man-made ecosystem that it is.
More recently\, Schilthuizen has taken his sci ence communication one step further and through his company Taxon Expediti ons now organizes real scientific expeditions for non-biologists to biodiv ersity hots all over the world (including both rainforests and mountaintop s\, but also urban parks). The key feature of these trips is to discover a nd publish entirely new species of wildlife.
Meeting point:< /strong> At the entrance of the Naturmusée.
Price :. Free of charge.
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