Meetings & Program Schedule
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Meetings start at
7:00
P.M. - Room 102, Yates Hall, (across from the North end of PSU football
stadium) at 1702 S.
Joplin St., Pittsburg, KS. Click here for a
PSU campus map. Click here
for a Yahoo map. |
| Thursday September 30, 2010 |
"Antarctica
and the Chilean Fjords" - A slide presentation by
Rod & Ellen Sallee on their Antarctica
expedition cruise and Chilean
Fjords aboard the ms Nordnorge. Including naturalist-guided shore
excursions by PolarCirkel boats to 8 landing sites observing penguins,
seabirds, whales, seals; encounters with pods of killer whales,
humpback whales, elephant seals, Antarctic Terns, Kelp gulls, Blue-eyed
shags, Black-browed albatross and many other birds. Also
information
about the trip's visit to Buenos Aires and Ushuaia Argentina (the
World’s End) and the post cruise trip in Chile beginning in Punta
Arenas where they saw Magellanic Penguins and visited Torres Del Paine
National Park and Patagonia. Ellen retired from Shepherdstown University, on the banks of the Potomac River, in Shepherdstown, WV where she was a Professor of Education and served as the Chair of the Department of Education. Rod retired from the U.S. Forest Service after nearly 40 years federal service, with his last assignment of 13 years on the Forest Management staff in the Forest Service’s Washington D.C. National Headquarters. |
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October 28, 2010 |
"Black-footed Ferrets in Kansas", by Pat Silovsky, who received her Master's Degree from Pittsburg State in 1986, and soon after became Director of the Milford Nature Center, Milford, KS, a position she still holds. She has been a leader in Kansas conservation and education, and co-recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Professional Interpreter Award, Region Six, from the National Association for Interpretation. |
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November 2010 |
Due to conflict with Thanksgiving and Christmas, the November and December meetings have been combined, and held on December 2, 2010. |
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December 2, 2010 |
To be announced. |
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January 27, 2011 |
To be announced. |
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February 24, 2011 |
To
be announced. |
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March 31, 2011 |
To be announced. |
| Thursday April 28, 2011 |
To be announced. |
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May 26, 2011 6-9 P.M. |
Sperry-Galligar Audubon Picnic, this year held on a Thursday at Homer Cole Pittsburg Community Center, 3003 North Joplin in Pittsburg, KS. |
| Summer Hiatus | SGAS will not hold regular meetings in the months of June, July & August. |
