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About the ABDNHA 2023-2024 Desert Lecture Series
Our first
featured lecture of the season will be a webinar. The remainder of
the lectures will be live in the Borrego Performing
Arts Center.
Everyone is welcome.
Seating is first come first served.
Our PAC lectures in this series are free for
ABDNHA members and $10 at the door for all others. The webinar on
Dec. 6 is free but donations are appreciated. For more
information, call (760) 767-3098.
ABDNHA 53Rd Annual Desert
Lecture Series
December 6, Wed., 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Webinar:
The Weather and Climate of San Diego County
What
makes it unique and is it changing?
Katie Giannecchini, Principal Meteorologist, SDG&E
This year, for our Desert Lecture Series, we make
the first one a webinar so people wide and far can tune
in. If you are interested in the science of
weather then this presentation is for you.
Katie Giannecchini is the principal meteorologist for
SDG&E, one of the most highly-rated weather teams for a
public utility in the U.S., particularly in regards to
fire management. SDG&E has a network of almost 200
weather stations, including several in Borrego
Springs. In tonight’s webinar Katie will talk about
the natural forces and topography that combine to give
San Diego County six distinct climate zones, starting
with the maritime environment of the sea, up and over
the mountains, and on to the desert in Borrego
Springs. She will also talk about the extreme weather
being seen in California and throughout the world and
how that may be the leading edge of climate change.
Katie's responsibilities at SDG&E require day-to-day
forecasts to inform of potential weather-related impacts
to the electric grid, pinpoint projections that
determine where to pre-position repair crews before
major weather events, and “climate reliance”, a long
term planning program to deal with changes decades into
the future. Nov 5, Sat., 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Registration for this webinar is online only.
There is no fee but donations are appreciated.
January 26, Fri., 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Capturing
Nature: The Photography of Paulette Donnellon
Presented by Paulette Donnellon
Borrego Performing
Arts Center
"Capturing Nature" is a series of
programs to be offered during the 2024 season on many of
the ways that nature may be "captured" with a mix of art
and technology. "Capturing Nature" refers to the
many ways that people can capture and save what they see
in nature, via nature photography, video, wildlife
trail cameras, night sky photography, and other creative
means, such as writing and painting.
It is
fitting that we open this series showing the work of
Paulette Donnellon. Much of her photography is in
the Anza-Borrego Desert to Salton Sea area, and she has
won a number of prestigious national awards with her
work. In tonight's program Paulette will show her
work and share what "capturing nature" means to her.
February 23, Fri., 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The
Wildflowers of California's Sky Islands
Presented by
Jon Rebman Ph.D.
Borrego Performing Arts
Center
Jon P. Rebman, Ph.D. has been
the Mary and Dallas Clark Endowed Chair and Curator of
Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum since
1996. In tonight's presentation he talks about the
unique environment of California's Sky Islands, high
elevation locations with unique environments that are
not directly connected to any other high level
locations. The unique ecosystems of the Sky
Islands are places where plants and animals are adapted
to the elevation and may not be found in the lowlands
that surround them.
March 22, Fri., 7:30
p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The California Deserts: Then
and Now
Jim Cornett, Desert Ecologist
Borrego
Performing Arts
Center
With a presentation named with the exact same
title as his latest book, Jim begins by selecting photos
of desert locations from 50 or more years ago and then
takes current photos in those exact locations to see
what may have changed. Jim Cornett is consistently
one of our most popular speakers, with a history of
research throughout the deserts of the Southwest, and
with more than two dozen books on the natural world of
the desert. His latest book may be purchased and
signed at this program.
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