{"id":29,"date":"2013-08-06T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T13:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:15:00","slug":"rivers-doctors-taking-the-pulse-of-the-worlds-largest-rivers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/rivers-doctors-taking-the-pulse-of-the-worlds-largest-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"River Doctors: Taking the Pulse of the World&#8217;s Largest Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h3>Photographs by Chris Linder<\/h3>\n<h4>February 21\u2013April 2, 2014<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>Doctors learn about the health of a person by studying blood. Earth scientists learn about the health of rivers \u2014\u00a0and the land surrounding those rivers \u2014\u00a0by studying water chemistry. <i>River Doctors<\/i> tells the story of four watersheds, revealing how deforestation, land disturbances, and climate change affect rivers and, in turn, the people who depend on them for recreation, commerce, and livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Oceanographer\u2013turned\u2013photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrislinder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Linder<\/a>\u2019s photographs draw viewers in with stunning views and captivating narratives. A deeper look reveals the story of how scientists are striving to understand the future of global watersheds.<\/p>\n<p><em>River Doctors<\/em> is made possible through support from the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<h3>Artist&#8217;s talk and opening reception<\/h3>\n<h4>Friday, February 21<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>4 p.m.: Artist&#8217;s Talk with\u00a0Chris Linder, Artist and Senior Fellow, International League of Conservation Photographers (Center for Art and Dance 305)<\/li>\n<li>5\u20136:30 p.m.: Opening Reception, Flaten Art Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volunteers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/crwp.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cannon River Watershed Partnership<\/a> monitor local river health, and will be present at the opening to discuss how their work relates to global river monitoring initiatives.\u00a0St. Olaf students who have done research in local Rice Creek and the featured Kolyma watershed will also be present.<\/p>\n<h3>Lecture<\/h3>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 25<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>4 p.m.:\u00a0<i>Unnatural Representations:\u00a0Photography and Nature,\u00a0<\/i>David Little, Curator of Photography and New Media, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Center for Art and Dance 305)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One popular story of photography and nature begins, rather oddly, with a pencil: William Henry Fox Talbot\u2019s\u00a0<i>Pencil of Nature<\/i>, the first commercially published book to use photographs as illustrations.\u00a0The story gets more strange as photographers attempt to use the medium to represent the complexity of nature.\u00a0This lecture will discuss a selection of key encounters involving photography and nature through the works of Anna Atkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Ansel Adams, Trevor Paglen, Thomas Ruff, and Rinko Kawauchi, among others.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Museum closed for Spring Break: March 22\u201330<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs by Chris Linder February 21\u2013April 2, 2014 Doctors learn about the health of a person by studying blood. Earth scientists learn about the health of rivers \u2014\u00a0and the land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}