The meeting will be held at the Sheet Metal Workers Union Hall at 1301 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19147

NOTE: This is a Friday event

Schedule:
6:30pm: Cocktail Hour with Cash Bar
7:30pm: Buffet-Style Dinner & Presentation by speaker Rosemary Mosco

Comics and Coos: Using Comics to Explore Ornithology

Speaker: Rosemary Mosco

Join author and illustrator Rosemary Mosco to hear how she came to use comics to talk about birds and other wildlife, and why this medium can foster connections between birders and help spread important conservation messages. Then, learn about Rosemary’s work on the surprising science of the humble but hilarious Rock Pigeon. Her book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird discusses the ways that this overlooked species can shed light on human history, bird behavior, ecology, genetics, and more.

Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world.

She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, the PBS show Elinor Wonders Why, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Ranger Rick, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine. She creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults and the nature comic Bird and Moon, which won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum.

Rosemary holds a Masters of Science from the Field Naturalist Program. She also served as a judge for a Festival of Bad Ad-hoc Hypotheses, judged a bird tattoo contest, and co-founded a week celebrating invertebrate butts.