Great Salt Lake is for the Birds

Are you expecting a typical story about lake ecology? You may be disappointed as there is nothing typical about Great Salt Lake nor this time in Earth’s history. In a new book, lake experts partner to reframe and update our knowledge base, include unheard voices, and dispense with incomplete understandings about our unique lake. It is a time of change and reckoning. Join chapter authors in the Salty Science Series and discuss the future of Great Salt Lake from their lens.
Great Salt Lake is for the birds! Great Salt Lake provides food and habitat to over 10 million migratory birds represented by 338 species. How will a change in their environment affect them and are pelicans the peli-canary in the coal mine warning us that humans will follow? Panelists include Ella Sorenson, (National Audubon), Mark Bell
(Utah State University) and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists Ashley Kijowski and John Neill.
The Salty Science Series is hosted by Great Salt Lake at Westminster College and will feature contributing authors in “Great Salt Lake Biology: a Terminal Lake in a Time of Change” in a series of 6 panel discussions. We hope that you will break out your inner nerd and have a lake themed dinner or drink ready to enjoy while you learn about the lake. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the night for the most creative food or libation. Jaimi’s dinner will be titled “MIgration” and will include roasted bird with north arm (beet salad).
Registration required (free) at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H7SSih7lRgWUJybhBsc49Q. After you register, expect an e-mail confirmation with the link to join the webinar.
Don’t worry if you cannot make this (virtually) in person, as they will be recorded and available when you have time.