Speakers

Starting any new job can be stressful.  Starting a job at a beloved Minnesota landmark, moving your family onto an historic site and toss in a global pandemic and you have for an interesting first ayear as Site Manager at Split Rock Lighthouse.

One of natures most remarkable spectacles can be witnessed each fall at Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve.  Learn more about the bird migration and how Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory serves to protect these birds through its research, education and stweardship programs.

Manager of Viant Crane.  A crane rental agency in Superior Wisconsin

Learn about the examples of scientific research efforts that have made their way into everyday life.  Using these examples as a starting point, the presentation will then speak to environmental research conducted through the years and how that work has positively influenced people and their environment.  There will be an overiew of the research conducted at the Duluth facility and how the work relates to projects locally in the Twin Ports and beyond!

We will learn the goals of the High Speed Rail Alliance and how a high-speed rail network has evolved in Europe and other locations, and how the integrated network approach can work in this country.  We will also learn specific action items citizens can take at the federal and state level to make high speed rail a reality in the Twin Cities/Duluth corridor.