Events
August 14
“The RIGHT STUFF”
in the Right Place -
Grant Park!
8:00pm (rain or shine)
Grant Park, Butler Field
Get Involved in an
Exciting Science Project
The Genographic Project
World Community Grid
SETI@Home
Encyclopedia of Life:
The Worldwide Biodiversity Project
Borders Bookstore on State Street 12-1:30pm
150 N. State Street, Chicago
Presenter: Mark Westneat, curator of zoology at the field talking about the "Encyclopedia of Life" biodiversity project.
Mark Westneat, curator of zoology at The Field Museum, will speak about this ambitious and fascinating project which he suggests “could be like Google Earth for the tree of life…Imagine zooming up the trunk of the tree of life, and zipping off to look at ferns and fungi, then zipping to the bird branches, and hopping over to dinosaurs." This $50 million biodiversity effort will create the “Encyclopedia of Life” – an authoritative version of Wikipedia for biology fans – documenting all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. Potential applications range from planning natural conservation in suburban subdivisions, to mapping coral reefs in the Pacific, to identifying that odd butterfly perched by your backyard window.
Presented by the Illinois Science Council in collaboration with The University of Chicago.
