INS 9-8 - Discovering life in Yellowstone where nobody thought it could exist

Wednesday, August 14, 2019
M108, Kentucky International Convention Center
Marybeth Shea, English, Marine Environmental and Estuarine Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD and Katia Engelhardt, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD
Thomas Brock, father of extremophile ecology, is my hero. Come to my Inspire Talk to hear why.

  • Enjoy a story of serendipity and science in 1960s Yellowstone National Park.
  • Be reminded of how basic research can yield unimaginable tech innovation.
  • Consider how habits of scientific thinking make inferential leaps possible, giving rise to new knowledge and lines of inquiry.
  • Know that you share much with Brock: science begins with the essential question of “I wonder....”