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How birds help assess environment talk tonight at museum

Women's History Month events continue

The second Women's History Month talk sponsored by the Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum is at 7 this evening when Jeanne Fair of Atmospheric, Climate and Environmental Dynamics (EES-2) describes the use of bluebird nesting boxes, which can be seen while hiking in some areas around Los Alamos and how they are used for monitoring environmental health. Other activities in March are planned as well.

Fair works on ecological risk assessment, epidemiology and disease modeling and West Nile virus in birds. "Birds as Sentinels of Environmental Health" is the title of Fair's presentation. She has been collecting data since 1997 and will discuss the effects of the fire, drought and other potential environmental concerns.

A third Women's History Month talk at the museum is scheduled for noon, March 15, by Stephani Sandoval of the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service. Sandoval, a forest health specialist, will talk about change in forest since fire suppression, forest conditions of today and the common insects seen. She will discuss the bark beetle and other insects affecting the forest and their role in the ecosystem. The Los Alamos Women in Science are co-sponsoring the talk.

As part of Women's History Month, the museum and the Lab's Physics (P) Division are co-hosting "Jewish Women Scientists Around the World," a national exhibit showcasing the lives and work of several Jewish women scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, whose contributions have been made in fields ranging from astronomy to zoology. The women scientists were from the United States, Europe, Israel, South Africa and Turkey. The exhibit's costs were donated by the Los Alamos Women in Science and the Hadassah chapters of Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The exhibit remains up through March 27.

The Bradbury Science Museum is located at 15th Street and Central Avenue in downtown Los Alamos. Museum hours apart from special events are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.

The Bradbury Science Museum is part of Los Alamos' Public Affairs Office.

For more information, contact Berger at 5-0896.

--Steve Sandoval

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