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Annual Dinner 2025
Sea & Sage Annual Dinner
Friday, March 21st, at Mile Square Park Banquet Center
Our Guest Speaker is Dr. Carl Sefina
He will speak on his 2023 book
“Alfie and Me, What Owls Know, What Humans Believe”
Join conservationist, author, and ecologist Carl Safina, founder of the Safina Center, as he presents Alfie and Me. After rescuing, raising, and releasing an orphaned screech owl, author Carl Safina expected their friendship to end there. However, shortly after her release, Alfie the owl chose to maintain her close connection with Carl and his wife Patricia and returned to their yard to begin living in the nest box above Carl’s studio. Having forged a close bond of trust, Alfie had lived in Carl and Patricia’s world and was now bringing them into hers.
Among his many achievements, Carl is an inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University, a Pew Fellow in Marine conservation, and a recipient of Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s Rabb Medal. He was named among the “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century” by Audubon magazine.
The evening will also include a Silent Auction and the presentation of our chapter’s Fern Zimmerman Conservation Award and Letters of Commendation. The Mile Square Park Banquet Center is located at the south end of Mile Square Park, at the intersection of Warner and Ward in Fountain Valley. Free parking is available. Below is the schedule for the evening:
No Host Bar: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Program: 8:00 p.m., sharp!
Location: Mile Square Park Banquet Center
Tickets: $65 for all reservations
Entrees: Slow Roasted Prime Rib, Macadamia nut crusted Mahi Mahi and Portobello Steak with Bell Pepper coulis. (All dinners will include a salad, fresh vegetables, freshly baked rolls, coffee, iced tea, decaf, and carrot cake for dessert)
RESERVATIONS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sea-and-sage-annual-dinner-2025-tickets-1147796804139
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY!! Seating will be assigned in the order in which the reservations are received. If you wish to sit with friends, be sure they make their reservations on the same day you do. All reservations will be made through Eventbrite, not by check. You will receive a confirmation email after your reservation has been made. ALL RESERVATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 12:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, MARCH 13th. For reservation questions, call Nancy Kenyon (949-892-9212; nancykenyon@cox.net). If you need a special order, such as no salt or seasoning or no dairy products, be sure to report that information to Nancy as well.
Want to learn more about Carl Safina? Visit his website at https://www.carlsafina.org and visit the Audubon House Nature Store to find some of his important books.
February TattlerGeneral Meeting – Online Presentation – David Haskell
Friday, January 17th – 7:00 PM
Via Zoom
“Sounds, Wild and Broken”
presented by David Haskell
Birdsong offers delight to our ears and also reveals hidden aspects of birds’ lives. David Haskell will discuss how careful listening can help us understand why birdsong is so diverse, how birdsong is embedded in the other sounds of the world, and the role of sound in conservation. He will focus on the many ways that birdsong is influenced by the physical and biological characteristics of the environment, and how these relationships generate sonic diversity.
David George Haskell is a writer and a biologist. His books about the natural world have won numerous awards, including twice being finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, Sounds Wild and Broken, invites readers to listen more deeply to the stories of sound in nature. Haskell is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a Guggenheim Fellow. You can learn more about his work at: https://dghaskell.com
Meeting room opens at 6:30 PM; join us for some virtual games prior to the 7:00 PM meeting. Here is the link you will need to join the meeting:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84198423399
If this link isn’t working for you, try
Meeting ID: : 841 9842 3399
Need help? Email Melissa Rapp at reedjandm@cox.net
4th Tuesday Conservation Lecture Jan. 28th
Tuesday, January 28th – 7:00 pm
Zoom Doors will open at 6:30 pm
“Honeybee Health, Bee Hotels, and the CIBER Team behind the Science”
Presented by
Emilia Burnham, B.S., UC Riverside Entomology M.S. – Class of 2025
Our guest speaker, Emilia Burnham, B.S., UC Riverside Entomology M.S., Class of 2025, will share information about the Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) research lab at the University of California, Riverside, and their research that focuses on three main honeybee areas:
- health management tools through developing medications and innovative ways to repel bees from dangerous areas, like insecticide-treated crops;
- monitoring of bee health using sensors;
- breeding better bees that can defend against pests and pathogens, like Varroa destructor and Nosema ceranae, and are heat-tolerant.
Emilia will also share information about CIBER’s studies on the effectiveness of bee hotels and observing the insect biodiversity of those that occupy them.
Please join us. Advance registration is required. Register here for this event.
Upon registering you will receive instructions on how to join the program. We look forward to seeing you!