This educational evening will include fun for the entire family, including Entomica, interactive science activities, crafts, trivia and an opportunity to learn from the scientists at the Centre. Entertainment will include a children’s face painter and the local band, TurboDad.
10+ GLFC scientists will give mini lectures titled:
• WildFireSat, Sault Ste Marie’s home-grown operational satellite mission
• Avengers Assemble! Stories of Nature's tiny super heroes
• Dalton Mills: A forgotten sawmill town
• 125 years of CFS Research in Forest Entomology: Insect Population Cycling in the Great Lakes Forest
• CFS science behind Fire Danger Rating in Canada
• What colors can insects (and other animals) see?
• From disease to genomics. A journey with insect viruses
• How useful are air tankers for supressing wildfires?
• Uncovering the migrations of spruce budworm moths
• A CFS Career, A Learning Journey
• How do insects smell?