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Conservation Dinner Series: Dan Levitis of the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County joins us in the elephant room after dinner to give a talk about the children’s museum and will have activities for the kids. The conservation dinner series is complimentary to all dinner guests.

If you would like to just go to this presentation, please reserve dinner by selecting the date of the lecture on the booking page. Dinner starts at 7:00 PM.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Dan Levitis wants every kid to know there is wildlife all around us. With a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, this biologist, conservationist, and naturalist, has studied wildlife, ecology, and evolution from New York to Papua New Guinea, and from California Condors to tiny plankton.

“People think of wildlife as something far away, removed from their own lives. But there are animals raising their young in the tiniest garden, packs of predators hunting prey under every rock, mating rituals happening in that sidewalk tree. We won’t see it if we don’t know it is there,” says Dr. Levitis

He previously worked at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, University of Southern Denmark, Bates College, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and for Sonoma Ecology Center at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park where he organized volunteers in wildlife camera trapping and documenting biodiversity through participatory science.  Dedicated to bringing ecological awareness to kids, Dr. Levitis now works at the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County.