- Date March 17, 2010
- Time 7:30 p.m
- Location Phoenix, AZ
- Price 3-part series tickets start at $58.50 (members) and $70.50 (general public)
Photograph by Mark Moffett
Dr. Mark Moffett
Photograph by Melissa W. WellsMark Moffett is a modern explorer with more than a little luck on his side. He has accidentally sat on the world’s deadliest snake, battled drug lords with dart guns, eaten scorpions and spiders, and ascended a tree to escape bull elephants. For him such risks are worth it, as part of his mission to find stories that make people fall in love with the unexpected: insects, frogs, and other of nature’s small wonders.
One of only a handful of people to earn a Ph.D. under the world’s most famous ecologist, E. O. Wilson, Moffett has produced over two dozen articles for National Geographic magazine and is working on his third book.
When not on expedition, Moffett divides his time between research positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the Smithsonian Institution, for which he recently curated an exhibit based entirely on his personal research and photography.
An entertaining, irreverent presenter who uses humor to open peoples’ eyes to the small wonders of the natural world, Moffett is a favorite on the late night talk shows. Join this intrepid and eccentric ecologist as he shares the beauty and marvels of life in the treetops.
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REI, Phoenix Zoo, and Changing Hands Bookstore
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