“Live . . . from National Geographic,” featuring explorers who have traveled the world on assignment for the National Geographic Society, comes to Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 1977 Campus Drive, Evanston, at 7:30 p.m. on four Tuesdays.
Tuesday, the first in the series is underwater photographer David Doubilet’s presentation “Diving Down Under,” about great white sharks and the Great Barrier Reef.
Paleontologist Paul Sereno presents “Hunting Dinosaurs in the Sahara” on March 13. Sereno’s team discovered a 70-foot-long sauropod in the Nigerian Sahara in 1997. He will discuss the discovery and share findings from fieldwork in Niger.
Renowned for finding the Titanic, deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard appears April 3. His program, “Secrets of the Deep,” focuses on recent explorations of the Black Sea floor where remains of human habitation were found last September, discovery off Israel of the oldest deep-water shipwrecks yet found and a survey of Pearl Harbor.
Last in the series, on May 8, photographer Nevada Wier and author Virginia Morell present “Exploring the Blue Nile.” Although it is mentioned in the Old Testament and a Jesuit priest reached its source in 1618, there was no record of anyone traversing its entire length in unbroken journey, until Wier and Morell traveled from the river’s headwaters to the Sudan border–more than 500 miles last year.
Tickets are available at the Pick-Staiger ticket office or by phone at 847-467-4000. The cost for all four presentations is $84 for adults ($70 for National Geographic Society or Geographic Society of Chicago members), $50 for students. Single-event tickets are $23.50 for adults, $15 for students.
