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Forever Wild in the Adirondack Mountains
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Details
By using photographs from hiking excursions and imagery from print and online publications in the Princeton University Library’s geosciences collection, this one-hour tour of the Adirondacks will include identification and information on local birds, ferns, moss, waterfowl, fish, trees, lakes, rivers, rock formations, mountains, minerals, environmental issues, and additional natural resources, natural hazards, and regulatory aspects within the Adirondack Park, and how the Adirondacks became "Forever Wild" https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/the-forever-wild-fight
What to expect:
Mini workshop (one-off workshop –" 60 mins total
Meet the facilitator:
Emily Wild is originally from the northern Adirondacks; she is the Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian in Princeton University Library's Lewis Science Library. Emily has a Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Hartwick College, and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Rhode Island. From 2008 to 2018, Emily was a Librarian (Physical Scientist) at the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library, where she helped library users find and use science and legislative materials, provided science and government outreach information, bibliographic and map instruction, as well as develop and present online and in-person training sessions on topics such as chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere, rock, sediment, and water; crustal geochemistry and geophysics, organic and inorganic chemistry, and trends in use and availability of mineral, energy, and water resources. From January 1996 to July 2008, she was a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist (water use, groundwater, surface water, coastal waters, and water quality) in the New England states. Emily’s past field work experiences include hydrologic and hydrogeologic research in Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as geologic mapping in the Grand Canyon, Arizona ; O'ahu, Maui, and Island of Hawai'i, Hawai'i ; San Salvador Island, Bahamas ; Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger Lakes, and Hudson River, New York ; Whaleback Anticline, Pennsylvania ; and Green Mountains, Vermont.
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