Speaker Series - Golden Gate Audubon Society

Golden Gate Audubon’s monthly Speaker Series features renowned naturalists, photographers, ornithologists, and other fascinating speakers. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Speaker Series events are now entirely online.

How to View Our Speaker Series: Our online events are hosted through Zoom and are provided on a first come, first serve basis of up to 500 participants. In order to sign into our events, you will first need to register for GGAS’s email distribution list. We send Speaker Series email alerts approximately 48 hours before each scheduled event. Our alerts contain important information for the event including our unique Zoom links and passwords to sign in. We also record our events.

If you’d like to sign up to our email list, please email Communications Manager, Melissa, at mramos@goldengateaudubon.org.

Thank you to Recology- Our San Francisco Speaker Series Sponsor

January 21, 2021

Net Negative Emissions in California by 2030: Can We Do It?

Presented by Ellie Cohen

The latest climate science supports what millions of people and animals are experiencing daily: the impacts of climate change are hitting harder and faster than expected, posing grave threats to human health and planetary health. We are already pushing against multiple global tipping points that could unleash abrupt and irreversible damage to people and wildlife alike. Children, the elderly, and people living in low-income communities are disproportionately affected. Our only hope for a vibrant, healthy, and equitable future for all is to enact bold climate policies now, not decades from now.

February 18, 2021

A Rainforest at our Feet: Local wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area

Presented by John Zentner

In this talk, acclaimed plant ecologist John Zentner will discuss how wetland health impacts the health of birds and wildlife. John will guide participants through understanding different types of local wetlands, from marshes, vernal pools, riparian wetlands, and more. He will then outline methods of wetland conservation and how these projects are crucial to maintaining holistic and healthy ecosystems that sustain all life.

March 18, 2021

What Would US Climate Policy Look Like if People and Planet Truly Mattered?

Presented by Basav Sen

NOTE: This event begins at 6 pm PST. In this talk, Basav Sen will discuss what a progressive internationalist agenda for US climate policy must look like in the years ahead for the US to truly become a good-faith partner to the rest of the world in addressing the climate crisis