The Greater Yellowstone Coaliation has announced An Evening with David Quammen to be held
Friday, March 4th from 7-8:30pm at Museum of the Rockies’ Hager Auditorium.
This presentation is set to celebrate National Geographic’s special edition on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, The Wild Heart of North America. The presentation is free and open to the public, but there is limited seating available and tickets are required to attend the presentation. Doors open at 6:30pm. Visit greateryellowstone.org/ for tickets or further information. David Quammen is an author and journalist whose fourteen books include The Song of the Dodo (1996), The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2007), and Spillover (2012), a work on the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases (especially viral diseases), which was short-listed for eight national and international awards and won three (including the Merck Prize, given in Rome). More recently he has published Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus and The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, both drawn largely from Spillover. Quammen is a Contributing Writer for National Geographic, in whose service he travels often, usually to wild places. He has also written for many other magazines, ranging from Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Book Review to Rolling Stone, Outside, and Powder. Much of his work is focused on ecology and evolutionary biology, frequently garnished with history and travel. In 2012, he received the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Quammen has lived in Montana for 43 years, and in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for most of that time.
His home is in Bozeman, where he shares a house and a small lot with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, a conservationist at work on a doctorate in environmental history, and their family of other mammals. •
