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

November 19, 2020

Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Climate Smart Restoration

Presented by John Parodi, STRAW Restoration Director, Alba K. Estrada López, Conservation Educator, and Isaiah Thalmayer, Senior Project Manager

Point Blue Conservation Science’s STRAW program (Students & Teachers Restoring A Watershed) implements community-based restoration projects, engaging more than 3000 students annually in hands-on restoration across California. Since beginning in 1994, STRAW has restored more than 36 miles of streams and educated 50,000 students, all free of charge to teachers thanks to generous support from partners, funders and donors.

December 17, 2020

Sand Dunes and Salt Flats: A GGAS Trip to Namibia, Africa

Presented by Bob Lewis

Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world, with 2.6 million residents. It has the largest sand dunes in the world, and it hasn’t rained for over 10 years in parts of the Namib Desert. But it hosts many birds and animals that have learned to survive in this arid place. We spent some time in Cape Town with GGAS friends (Eric and Susan), and then four of us drove to Walvis Bay where we met our GGAS tour group. We’ll show you many of the desert creatures we saw on our tour.