Events

Speaker Dinner with Professor David K. Skelly

April 29, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Greenwich, Connecticut

Prof. Skelly, Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and Professor of Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Study will give a talk entitled "Sex and the Suburban Frog"

Have you ever thought about what happens to the chemicals in your everyday life after you are done using them?  Soap, medication, household cleaners, and even the residue on that new plastic food container all contain chemicals which can be biologically active.  Through a combination of wildlife biology and environmental chemistry, Professor David Skelly is exploring the fate and impact of chemicals leaving suburban homes.  Professor Skelly's work has been inspired by his discovery that frogs living in backyard pools often have deformities.  The problem is that chemicals acting through hormonal pathways can have effects even at very low concentrations.  There are a startling number of potentially harmful chemicals out there.

Cocktails / cash bar will start at 6:30pm and dinner and the speaker presentation will start at 7:30pm.  The ticket price is $70 per person which includes dinner with wine.  Please RSVP by April 24th. 

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