LUCERNE >> Marymount California University has announced the next three dates for their continuing “Water Series” lectures, presented by guest speaker Allen Franz.
The next lecture is scheduled tonight at Marymount”s Lakeside campus in Lucerne, with the following lectures on Nov. 12 and 19. All three are slated to run from 7 to 8 p.m.
Water covers 70 percent of the Earth, and makes up 70 percent of the human body. The presentations will provide background on the basic physics, chemistry and astronomy of water, as well as global water issues, the ecology and politics of water.
Franz, an environmental anthropologist, has been a Marymount faculty member for more than 30 years in Southern California, and has conducted multidisciplinary research in Latin America, Europe and Africa, as well as California and other western states.
In recent years, he has been selected to lead a National Science Foundation program for college instructors (on Geology, Climate, and Ecology of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada) and as a collaborator in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Field Institute (on Nature and History at the Nation”s Edge: A Field Institute in Environmental and Borderlands History).
The campus is located at 3700 Country Club Drive in Lucerne.
