Science on Tap: “Mongolian Fish Hunt”
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Date:
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April 2, 2012
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Time:
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6:00 p.m.
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Location:
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National Mechanics
22 S. Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 |
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Open to the Public |
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Fee:
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Free
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Join Mark Sabaj Pérez, ichthyology collection manager at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, as he shares tales of the Academy’s ichthyological adventures in northern Mongolia. In 2006 Pérez led a team of American and Mongolian scientists that set out from Ulaanbataar to find the Amur catfish, the world's most northern catfish and smaller cousin to the giant Wels catfish made famous in many anglers’ prized photographs. The challenges of Mongolian fieldwork ranged from outsmarting difficult transportation and fishing in icy rivers to enduring freak summer hailstorms and the endless drone of the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”
Follow the explorers’ adventures as they traverse northern Mongolia on roads that don’t exist and traipse through infinite herds of goats and sheep without the help of navigational aids…all to find one of nature’s most elusive fish.
Science on Tap is a monthly gathering that features a brief, informal presentation by a scientist or other expert followed by lively conversation.
Presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Open to the public (age 21+ or accompanied by chaperone 25 years or older).
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