Monthly lectures are held on the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00 p.m., at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, on G Street. Lectures are simultaneously cast on Zoom (look for links on Facebook and in local newspapers), and available on YouTube (below).
If you’re interested in presenting a lecture, email info@arcatamarshfriends.org
View past FOAM public lectures:
Lecture PowerPoint
Zoom Lectures (Also found on YouTube: FOAM Friends of the Arcata Marsh Lectures)
- Jeff Black Community Support=From Art to Science
- Lily Olmo Life Beneath the Surface: Exploring Fish in Arcata Marsh
- Andrew Wolff The Beneficial Uses of the Marsh
- Elliott Dabill How California Geology Came to Be
- Janelle Chojnacki Humans, Ravens, and Plovers
- Sharon Levy Native Bees
- Sandra Hunt-vanArb Flying Jewels of the Marsh: An Introduction to Dragonflies
- Pete Haggard Smaller Wildlife of the Arcata Marsh: Insects, Amphibians, and Reptiles
- Jerry Rohde The East Side of Humboldt Bay
- Ken Burton Who Were Those Birds Named After?
- Elliott Dabill Elliott Dabill Explains the Past, Present, and Future of Arcata Marsh
- Aldaron Laird King Tides and Sea Level Rise in Humboldt Bay (This is a slideshow of the presentation, as the lecture was not recorded)
- Kaylee Jewell Merging Citizen Science and Art: North Coast Otters
- Mark Wilson (Passcode: 4r=vYZK?) Bacteria and Wastewater Treatment
- Dave Couch (Passcode: Z+&@qB1w) Update on the Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Jamie Carlino (Passcode:5.9Rh%xF) Rat Poison is Wildlife Poison
- Mark Wilson (Passcode: !09NK2%? ) Natural History of Microorganisms
- Jerry Rohde (Passcode: 2gx3^ReS) Twice as Many Wharves
- Adam Canter (no Passcode) Botanical Ethnography
See some of our previous speakers on YouTube:
- John DeMartini, on Parasites at the Arcata Marsh
- Craig Benson, on Estuarine Restoration: Spartina Removal, Part 1, Part 2
- Hanna Nielsen, on Communicating Climate Change
- Laura Allen, on Water Conservation: Greywater
- Conor Shea, on McDaniel Slough Restoration
- Erin Kelly, on Forest Carbon Credits
- Jenny Hanson, leading an Arcata Marsh Tour