Lunch & Learn Lecture

Location

Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center
300 Tower Road
Naples, FL 34113
(239) 417-6310

Date and Time

• Wed, Mar 6, 2013, noon - 1 pm
• Wed, Apr 3, 2013, noon - 1 pm

Description

Rookery Bay hosts a lunch lecture series from October through April, with speakers discussing environmental or local cultural topics. Lunch and dessert provided by Carrabba’s and Costco.

The lecture is free for members and $8 for non-members and includes admission to the Environmental Learning Center. Limited to the first 50 guests, and members may call 417-6310 x401 to reserve a spot.

• Wed, Mar 6, noon - 1 pm
  Investigating the Mysteries of Sea Turtles - Jeff Schmid, Conservancy of Southwest Florida and Jill Schmid, Rookery Bay Reserve
  Jeff Schmid will provide an update about ongoing studies of satellite tracking and foraging ecology of Kemp's ridley turtles in the Charlotte Harbor estuary. Jill Schmid will discuss an eleven-year study of sea turtle nest temperatures on Keewaydin Island.
   
• Wed, Apr 3, noon - 1 pm
  Free Energy: Myths, Maybes, and Facts - Geoff Trager, Alternative Energy Consultant
  This discussion of free energy will go beyond established sources of clean, green, free energy already known to work - such as solar and wind power - to consider sources on the fringe of leading research, including Earth batteries, electricity from air potatoes, harnessing cosmic rays for power, magnetic "perpetual motion" generators, Tesla coils and more.
  

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