U of M Biological Station Summer Lecture Series: Brave the Wild River, 7:00 pm, Gates Lecture Hall, University of Michigan Biological Station 9133 Biological Rd., Pellston, MI 49769. Melissa Sevigny, the author of the book “Brave the Wild River,” will visit northern Michigan to give a talk as part of the historic scientific field station’s 2024 Summer Lecture Series. The event on the Pellston campus is free and open to the public. Sevigny’s book, which was published in 2023, is about Drs. Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, U-M botanists who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon in 1938. The book includes both of their ties to UMBS, including Clover’s summer lectures about her grand adventures. Sevigny is the science reporter at KNAU (Arizona Public Radio). She has worked as a science communicator in the fields of space exploration, water policy and sustainable agriculture. Her stories have been awarded regional Edward R. Murrow awards and featured nationally on “Science Friday.” For information on this presentation click here and other lectures in the series click here.