Digital Earth: Explore the Rocky Mountain West

Large-scale environmental changes are often difficult to document or even to see from our ground-based vantage. With space scientist Ka Chun Yu as your driver and geologist Bob Raynolds as your guide, you will embark on an amazing tour of Earth from the vantage of a satellite in space and get a bird's eye-view of our ever-changing Rocky Mountain forests and see how bark beetles, water conditions, climate change, and management practices are affecting the balance of these ecosystems.

Tuesday, January 22

7:00 pm

Gates Planetarium

$8 member, $10 nonmember

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Paleontology 101 *

Begin the Paleontology Certification Program with this introductory course exploring basic concepts of paleontology and geology. Choose from two sets of dates this spring.

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Earth in Motion

In this first Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson tells us why earthquakes happen and how mountains are born.

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Geology on the White River

Paddle through lands reached only by river, follow eagles in flight, keep an eye out for abundant wildlife, and ponder erosions carving the landscapes of the West from the vantage point of the river that is doing the carving.

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