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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MARION NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Free programs for Adults<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesdays 10:30 – 11:30 am, at the Marion Natural History Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Oct. 20 - Forestry Health with Felicia Hubacz, MA DCR Forester<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="color:#201F1E">Join DCR Forest Health Specialist Felicia Hubacz as she discusses the State’s major forest health issues of the last year. These include Beech Leaf Disease, White Pine Needle
Disease, Emerald Ash Borer, and Asian Longhorned Beetle. Learn to identify current and future threats to our forest and how the DCR Forest Health Program monitors and manages for them.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Oct. 27 - Tick borne diseases with Blake Dinius, Entomologist with Plymouth County Ext. Service.
</span></b><span style="color:#201F1E">When it comes to preventing tick bites, it’s all about knowledge, not fear. In our workshop, we’ll bust myths and learn practical applications based on scientific research.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday Nov. 3, 11:00 – 12:00 am, Zoom access will be sent upon pre-registration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Future of Natural History Museums with focus on small museums like the Marion Natural History Museum.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Speaker is Eric Dorfman, author of the book, “The Future of Natural History Museums”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#231F20">Eric Dorfman is Director and CEO of North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, a member of the Executive Board of the International National Council of Museums (ICOM), and an adjunct
faculty member of North Carolina State University in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences. He is an author of several popular books on New Zealand natural history and climate change, as well as scholarly papers on museum education, public
programming, Egyptology and the ecology of wetland birds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#231F20">Dorfman completed a master’s degree through San Jose State University studying the behavioral ecology porpoises in Monterey Bay, California and a doctorate at The University of
Sydney on wetland ecology in eastern and central Australia. Current research includes scale-dependent habitat use of waterbirds in human dominated landscapes. Let’s have a conversation with Eric about “The Future of Natural History Museums”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:106%">Contact the Director at
<a href="mailto:Director@marionmuseum.org">Director@marionmuseum.org</a> to preregister for these events</span></b>.
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