AUBURN — The Stanton Bird Club plans to host the first in its 2023-24 lecture series featuring Amber Whittaker, senior geologist with the Maine Geological Survey, at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St.

Prior to returning to her home state of Maine in 2016, Whittaker’s career encompassed both industry and graduate work in diverse locales such as New Mexico and New Zealand. Her professional journey has taken her across the globe, including Maine, the desert Southwest, the European Alps, the Southern Alps, and Antarctica, where she engaged in extensive geological lab and fieldwork.

Her primary responsibilities involve conducting bedrock mapping and creating bedrock geologic maps for publication. In addition to her mapping endeavors, she collaborates closely with academic institutions and state and federal agencies on grant-funded projects and the publication of peer-reviewed articles.

This talk will explore the diversity of Maine’s geologic landscape and discuss how the natural features were developed from 700 million years ago to the present day. It will briefly look at the tools that scientists use to study the earth and projects that are underway in Maine.

The public is welcome; the lecture series is free of charge.

For more information, visit stantonbirdclub.org.

 

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