Description: A Zoom lecture presented by Deborah Cramer, Visiting Scholar, Environmental Solutions Initiative – MIT

To research and write The Narrow Edge, Deborah Cramer accompanied Red Knots along their extraordinary migration from Tierra del Fuego up to the Arctic.  In this talk, she’ll share photographs from her journey, and explore Long Island’s importance to the flyway; critical ecological connections between shorebirds and horseshoe crabs; the ways horseshoe crabs protect human health, including in the fight against Covid; and exciting developments which can restore horseshoe crabs and the shorebirds that need them.

Deborah Cramer is the author of two books about the sea – Great Waters and Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World – and most recently, The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, And An Epic Journey, which received the Best Book Award from the National Academies of Science, and the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists.  Perhaps you’ve read her op-eds in the New York Times, or heard her talk about shorebirds on NPR.  She’s a visiting scholar at MIT and lives at the edge of a salt marsh in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Free and open to all. Reservations required.  

To join this Zoom presentation, you must register in advance.                                          

Email: fourharborsheron@gmail.com  You will receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the meeting the day before the event.