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SUMMARY:Lecture - Geology is Ecology’s Destiny
DESCRIPTION:Geology is Ecology’s Destiny  \nSpeakers: Dan Gruber / Mike Nolan \nDate: Saturday November 8\, 2025 \nTime: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM \nWhen most people think of an ecosystem\, they think of the relationship between plants and animals in an area. But the most fundamental ecological relationship is between the environment and everything that lives there. Every environment presents challenges and opportunities that anything that lives there successfully must have adapted to overcome and take advantage of\, respectively. Virtually all the characteristics of an environment – the composition of its soil\, its topography\, even its climatic conditions – have been shaped by geologic processes over millions of years. An area’s geology and geologic history basically determine its ecosystem. This talk will explore and explain the\ndeep relationship between geology and ecology. \nDan Gruber has a B.S. in Philosophy and Physics and a master’s degree in operations research. Since retiring as a principal and senior partner at Deloitte Consulting\, he has served in volunteer capacities with conservation-related organizations including the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy and the Central Arizona Conservation Alliance. He has authored several research papers focused on local geology\, contributed to several books\, and teaches courses about the natural history of central Arizona. \nMike Nolan is a geologist\, who for more than two decades has given presentations and led field trips on geologic topics\, helping his audience discover the stories hidden in the rocks beneath their feet and the landscapes that surround them. Mike has a degree in Geology from the University of Rochester. He is a former Executive Director of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy and has also worked with other conservation groups. Currently he is a consultant who works with nonprofit organizations
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LOCATION:Scottsdale Public Library – Mustang Library\, 10101 N. 90th Street\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, 85260\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture - A Dozen Ways to Die in the Desert: The Old West Version
DESCRIPTION:Cultural Resources Lecture: A Dozen Ways to Die in the Desert: The Old West Version \nTuesday\, November 25\, 2025\, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \nLocation: Mustang Library\, 10101 N 90th Street\, Scottsdale\, AZ 85258 \nThis presentation covers more unusual ways in which people ended up ten toes in the air in the middle of the Sonoran Desert during the heyday of the Old West. It is meant to provide an entertaining education as to how desert denizens met their ends either as victims of Mother Nature\, their fellow humans\, or their own poor judgment. Did you know that the shootout at the OK Corral was not the most epic gunfight in Arizona? That a husband and wife riding in a surrey between Cave Creek and Phoenix met an untimely end because they disregarded advice from local ranchers? Or that you drive past the site of Arizona’s last lynching on your way to Apache Junction? \nRSVP below to let us know you are coming!
URL:https://www.mcdowellsonoran.org/event/lecture-a-dozen-ways-to-die-in-the-desert-the-old-west-version/
LOCATION:Scottsdale Public Library – Mustang Library\, 10101 N. 90th Street\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, 85260\, United States
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