Talk with Author Edward Struzik

Edward Truzik is the author of “Swamplands: “Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs & The Improbable World of Peat.” Live on Zoom with author Edward Struzik; Thursday, Aug. 25: 7 to 8 p.m.; Visit the library’s website and click on the Zoom link at 7 p.m. on Aug. 25 to Zoom to the event. Don’t miss this talk with author and award-winning scientist Edward Struzik. Struzik was awarded the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and spent a year at Harvard and MIT researching environment, evolutionary biology, and politics with E.O. Wilson, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard
Lewontin. He is an active speaker and lecturer, and is regular contributor to Yale Environment 360. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, a citizens’ organization dedicated to the long-term environmental and social well-being of northern Canada and its peoples. The Wall Street Journal called
“Swamplands” “a fascinating book.” Join us as Struzik takes us to a world filled with breathtaking beauty, the Arctic wetlands where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell, and explore their critical significance. Swamplands highlights the unappreciated struggle being waged to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It urges us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet’s survival might depend on it. Struzik has been writing about scientific and environmental issues for more than 30 years. A fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, his numerous accolades include the prestigious Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to the understanding of science.