The Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries invite you to join us on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. via Zoom for Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: How Bird Watchers and AI Are Reshaping How We See and Conserve Birds, presented by Dr. Miyoko Chu, Senior Director of Communications at Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For millennia, birds have captured people’s imaginations with their beauty, songs, and soaring flights. Now, with our planet facing a biodiversity crisis, birds are in trouble worldwide. In the U.S. and Canada, nearly 3 billion breeding birds have been lost in the past 50 years, and half of bird species are declining. Take a look at the future of bird conservation as Dr. Miyoko Chu shares how digital information platforms, AI technology, and growing numbers of bird enthusiasts are generating unprecedented data and insights about 11,000 bird species around the world—with the hope of saving them while there is still time.
The free public talk, which is supported by the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries, coincides with the Special Collections Feathers and Folios exhibit in Linderman Library.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session led by Boaz Nadav-Manes, Lehigh’s University Librarian. Advance registration required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
About the speaker
Dr. Miyoko Chu is the senior director of Communications at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a nonprofit organization that engages people of all walks of life in understanding and protecting birds and nature. An ornithologist and science writer, Dr. Chu led the team that created the Cornell Lab’s free Merlin Bird ID app which has been downloaded by more than 10 million people around the world. She is the author of Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds; Birdscapes, a Pop-Up Celebration of Bird Songs in Stereo Sound; and America’s Favorite Birds: 40 Beautiful Birds to Color.
Sponsored by The Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries