The Arizona Museum of Natural History (AzMNH) and the Southwest Chapter of the Explorers Club are co-hosting "Walking with Purpose - reinventing 19th Century Desert Exploration for 21st Century Desert Knowledge," a program by Andrew Harper.
This program will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 7 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the AzMNH, 53 N. Macdonald in Mesa.
Andrew Harper is founder is of Australian Desert Expeditions. Focusing on the record rains and floods in the Simpson Desert from 2009 to 2011, Harper describes, through a rich visual and informative presentation, the remarkable transformation of the world's largest parallel sand-ridge desert. He also reveals how a chosen career path can take a young person into wholly unexpected, diverse, and exciting directions. His lecture will satisfy those interested in such disciplines as botany, anthropology, ornithology, archaeology and paleontology.
Harper recently received the prestigious Order of Australia award for services to environmental sciences. As part of Desert Expeditions, Harper leads ecologists, ornithologists, archaeologists, as well as other scientists including citizen scientists, through the desert on a variety of studies and surveys. Harper is currently working on a transect of the Simpson Desert in Australia, which has never been surveyed by scientists before.
This program will be presented in the AzMNH Theater. Admission for the program is free. The entire museum will NOT be open and seating is on a first come basis starting at 6:30 p.m. Registration is not required. Visit AzMNH.org or "Like" us on Facebook www.facebook.com/azmnh1 "Follow" us on Twitter @AzMNH for all the latest on our great programs.
Arizona Museum of Natural History
Contact: Kathy Eastman
Tel. 480-644-5662
kathy.eastman@mesaaz.gov