This installment of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lecture series features Seattle Times environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes, who, along with four colleagues, won a 2019 AAAS Kavli Award for a series on the plight of southern resident killer whales, or orcas, in the Puget Sound region.
“She will discuss the process of reporting the story of a mother orca who carried her dead calf around the Salish Sea for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles. Mapes also will discuss the importance of cross-cultural cooperation to tell the stories of Native cultures of the Salish Sea. She will address how her work as a reporter is driven by questioning how and why things work, the history of the land that we occupy today, and why this all matters.”
The lecture will take place in person at the University of Washington, and livestreamed online. For more details and to register, visit this link.