The David S. Ingalls, Jr. Award for Excellence:
Saving Biodiversity in a Warmer World
Dr. Peter Raven, botanist
November 16, 2007, 7:30 pm

Join us as we present Missouri Botanical Garden Director Dr. Peter Raven with the Museum’s Ingalls Award, which honors an individual who has made a nationally or internationally regarded contribution to research, education or conservation in natural science. Afterward, Raven will give the talk “Saving Biodiversity in a Warmer World.” In it, he will discuss the present “age of biological extinction” and address biodiversity’s prospects for the 21st century and what we can do to improve them.

Free and open to the public