Attention all science, environment, and nature lovers! Zenith Bookstore has invited science and environmental journalist Laura Poppick on Tuesday, July 29th at 7 PM. She will be in conversation with University of Minnesota Duluth Earth and Environmental Professor Latisha Brengman to discuss Laura’s debut work Strata: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton). They will talk about the book, their research, backgrounds, and answer audience questions.
The epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata – ages old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In Strata: Stories from Deep Time, Laura Poppick introduces us to researchers who have devoted their careers to understanding the events of deep time, including the world’s leading stegosaur scientist. She travels to sites as various as a Minnesotan iron mine that runs half a mile deep and a corner of the Australian Outback where glacial deposits date from the coldest times on Earth. Ultimately, she demonstrates that the planet’s oceans, continents, atmosphere, life, and ice have always conspired to bring stability to Earth.
Laura Poppick is a science and environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Wired, Audubon, National Geographic, Science, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Maine.
Latisha Brengman is an associate professor and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is a geoscientist interested in deciphering early earth problems relevant to nascent life. Extinct environments preserve clues to the origin, evolution, and proliferation of Earth's earliest life. Latisha received her BA from Northwestern University and her PhD from the University of Tennessee.
This event is free and open to the public. Strata will be available at the event and can also be pre-ordered at
https://zenithbookstore.com/item/KbKT8pcwmPX8ZwuI_PJu7g
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