Spring Lyceum Series—MAKING HOME

What does it mean to be home? Making a home is on ongoing process rather than a one-time choice, reflecting an active effort to sustain natural and human communities through the years. Our spring lecture series, centered on that process, features speakers ranging from a landscape painter whose artistic practice has both rooted him here and helped preserve the environment he loves, to a panel of people who grew up here, left for other places, and returned to re-make their homes and businesses.

David Minkoff will talk about the basics of Atlantic salmon migrations and discuss some of the possible mechanisms of these remarkable journeys, including the roles of olfaction (sense of smell), the geomagnetic field, and life stages during which juvenile fish learn to become expert navigators.

A fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Dave’s past work centered on applied research in salmonid imprinting and homing, and currently is focused on fish passage and stream connectivity in the Lake Champlain basin.

$5 / Students free.