Nov 19 -- River Otters: Back on the Bay Area Map!
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Adrian Cotter
Nov 10, 2015, 1:48:34 AM11/10/15
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Several people pointed out that I had the date wrong in the subject line of my original email... I will otter an apology now * :) Otters coming up in a week and a half!
Adrian
* unable to resist bad puns
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From: Adrian Cotter <aco...@nonsensical.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:29 PM
Subject: [SFNHS] Thu Nov 19 -- River Otters: Back on the Bay Area Map!
To: Adrian Cotter <adrian...@nonsensical.com>
Our first ever video recorded lecture -- thanks to the San Francisco Public Library for hosting us, and providing this. Don't get used to it though, most of our venues are not so high tech :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyH1JJZ1D0g
Gregory Rosenthal joined us October 19th, 2015 to share his research into the early days of San Francisco. He started out as a scholar of China -- but was looking for a place that China and the U.S. connected and landed upon Hawaii.
Kapalakiko -- the transliteration of San Francisco in Hawaiian -- was one node of a large Hawaiian diaspora in the mid to late 1800s. Hawaiian's worked all around the Pacific -- the large majority as whalers, in the arctic (where they were -- perhaps unexpectedly -- reliably the best workers), gathering guano, and active as workers and boatmen in California, with large numbers working the gold fields of California (Sutter had 10 Hawaiians in his employ).
This all evidenced by a number of Hawaiian language papers that were in circulation throughout the Pacific -- which served as an important source of material for Gregory's research. 90% percent of Hawaiian's were literate in Hawaiian, and the papers served to connect the population that spread out over such large distances.
The 1860 census of San Francisco found that Hawaiians were the largest population next to whites. They weren't just workers though -- they were also landowners -- although along with Mexicans -- many had their land confiscated over time. While they were literate in Hawaiian -- the "kanaka" -- the term used for Hawaiian workers -- weren't necessarily literate in English and their employers often used this to their advantage (writing contracts in English without fully disclosing their contents).
He's worked to bring their names back and humanize their story -- helping to make San Francisco what it was from the very beginning.
From: Adrian Cotter <aco...@nonsensical.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:29 PM
Subject: [SFNHS] Thu Nov 19 -- River Otters: Back on the Bay Area Map!
To: Adrian Cotter <adrian...@nonsensical.com>
This month is our last talk of the year -- and takes place in Oakland at Lake Merritt's Rotary Nature Center. Stay tuned for 2016 programming & locations -- we will be wandering for all of 2016
-- Adrian & Nissa
Guest Speaker: Robyn Aston, River Otter Ecology Project
7pm November 19th, 2015
FREE Lake Merritt Rotary Nature Center, Oakland, CA
600 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA
River otters are charismatic carnivores, and make wonderful ambassadors for river and wetland restoration and conservation efforts. Once extirpated in the SF Bay Area, little is known about their current population, range, and seasonal eating habits. The River Otter Ecology Project has taken on the challenge of discovering and documenting their ecological niche, with the goal of informing land use decisions and preserving habitat for these lively aquatic mammals.
Join us as we discuss what we know, what needs to be discovered, and just how we manage to research elusive, secretive mammals who slide into the water and disappear when approached. We will show slides and videos from our “otter-cams,” and discuss the project and the role that citizen science plays in this otterly exciting work!
LOCATION
Guest Speaker: Robyn Aston, River Otter Ecology Project
7pm November 19th, 2015
FREE Lake Merritt Rotary Nature Center, Oakland, CA
600 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA
River otters are charismatic carnivores, and make wonderful ambassadors for river and wetland restoration and conservation efforts. Once extirpated in the SF Bay Area, little is known about their current population, range, and seasonal eating habits. The River Otter Ecology Project has taken on the challenge of discovering and documenting their ecological niche, with the goal of informing land use decisions and preserving habitat for these lively aquatic mammals.
Join us as we discuss what we know, what needs to be discovered, and just how we manage to research elusive, secretive mammals who slide into the water and disappear when approached. We will show slides and videos from our “otter-cams,” and discuss the project and the role that citizen science plays in this otterly exciting work!
LOCATION
Lake Merritt’s Rotary Nature Center is at 600 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland.
On the Northern shore of Lake Merritt (between it’s two “arms”). Part of the City of Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation, the Center is an interpretive museum, providing education about the natural environment while overseeing America’s oldest wildlife refuge and Oakland open spaces. A City of Oakland, Office of Parks and Recreation entity.
DIRECTIONS
The Nature Center is about a 20 minute walk from 19th St BART station. Closest bus line from the direction of BART is the NL or the 12. There is street parking.
DIRECTIONS
The Nature Center is about a 20 minute walk from 19th St BART station. Closest bus line from the direction of BART is the NL or the 12. There is street parking.
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LAST MONTH'S TALK
Our first ever video recorded lecture -- thanks to the San Francisco Public Library for hosting us, and providing this. Don't get used to it though, most of our venues are not so high tech :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyH1JJZ1D0g
Gregory Rosenthal joined us October 19th, 2015 to share his research into the early days of San Francisco. He started out as a scholar of China -- but was looking for a place that China and the U.S. connected and landed upon Hawaii.
Kapalakiko -- the transliteration of San Francisco in Hawaiian -- was one node of a large Hawaiian diaspora in the mid to late 1800s. Hawaiian's worked all around the Pacific -- the large majority as whalers, in the arctic (where they were -- perhaps unexpectedly -- reliably the best workers), gathering guano, and active as workers and boatmen in California, with large numbers working the gold fields of California (Sutter had 10 Hawaiians in his employ).
This all evidenced by a number of Hawaiian language papers that were in circulation throughout the Pacific -- which served as an important source of material for Gregory's research. 90% percent of Hawaiian's were literate in Hawaiian, and the papers served to connect the population that spread out over such large distances.
The 1860 census of San Francisco found that Hawaiians were the largest population next to whites. They weren't just workers though -- they were also landowners -- although along with Mexicans -- many had their land confiscated over time. While they were literate in Hawaiian -- the "kanaka" -- the term used for Hawaiian workers -- weren't necessarily literate in English and their employers often used this to their advantage (writing contracts in English without fully disclosing their contents).
He's worked to bring their names back and humanize their story -- helping to make San Francisco what it was from the very beginning.
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