Class to Explore Desert Management
Management of the eastern Mojave Desert will be explored in a class offered by the Cal State San Bernardino Office of Extended Education on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at its Desert Studies Center near Baker.
The course will include lectures, field experience and class discussion. Call (909) 880-5975 to register.
GEOLOGY
* Geologist Lucile M. Jones will discuss “Vertical Earthquakes and Other Earthquake Myths” on “Airtalk: The Caltech Edition” at 6 p.m. Wednesday on KPCC-FM (89.3 FM). Listeners can call in at (818) 793-3667 or (818) 798-2489.
SCIENCE POLICY
* James M. Bower, Caltech associate professor of biology, will discuss “Scientists and Science Education Reform: Myths, Methods and Madness,” at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. Call (818) 395-4652 or (800) 423-8849.
METEOROLOGY
* Meteorologist Kevin Durkee will discuss the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s wind and temperature profiling experience and the LAX radar system at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the meeting of the American Meteorological Society at the AQMD office in Diamond Bar. (213) 343-2222.
ENVIRONMENT
* Wildlife photographer Homes Miller will present an audiovisual program on the flora and fauna of the Arctic tundra, Lapland and Spitzbergen at the Whittier Audubon Society meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Whittier Community Center. (310) 869-8420.
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