Catherine Badgley to reveal 'Lessons from Deep Time' at KWU

Catherine Badgley will present on "Lessons from Deep Time" at Kansas Wesleyan University, according to a community announcement.

The event is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. March 4 in Peters Science Hall 201.

Badgley is a paleoecologist and professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees in geology, wildlife ecology and biology from Radcliffe College and Yale University. Since 1985, she has been a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology and currently serves as the director of the Residential College.

Her research has taken her to Pakistan, China, Kenya and the western United States. Badgley connects paleoecology with the biogeography of modern mammals and studies the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity and climate change, according to the announcement.

The presentation will include a discussion on how deep time can inform current and future ecological perspectives. Following her talk, there will be a question-and-answer session, allowing attendees to engage directly with Badgley.

The event is part of the "Prairie Conversations" series sponsored by Kansas Wesleyan's Community Resilience Hub.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information about the Community Resilience Hub, visit www.kwu.edu/CRH .

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