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2011-2012 Dinners & Brunches at the Lake
2011-2012 schedule
PLEASE NOTE: starting in 2012, the cost will stay $20 per person for early reservations and reservations made the week of the event will increase to $25 per person
Dinner at the Lake - February 18, 2012
Mysteries of the Aurora Borealis: the Northern Lights
with Bob Lysak - professor of Physics and Astromony at U of MN
Reserve early!
The dancing, shimmering glow of the northern lights has amazed mankind for centuries. Early northern peoples from Alaska to Siberia have wondered about the lights and created legends to explain them. Now in the space age, experiments flown on satellites and rockets have led to a greater understanding of the aurora and how it is affected by solar activity. I will summarize modern thinking about the causes of the aurora, as well as showing many pictures of this phenomenon.
Bob Lysak has been a faculty member at the University of Minnesota’s School of Physics and Astronomy since 1982, after receiving a Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley and doing post-doctoral research at Berkeley and in Munich, Germany. He has specialized in the theory and modeling of auroral acceleration processes during all of that time and is recognized internationally as an expert in this field. He has recently been honored by being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and is the editor of the scientific journal, the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
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Dinner at the Lake - April 21, 2012
Minnesota Osprey Reintroduction
with Mark Martell - director of bird conservation for Audubon MN
MOTHER'S DAY BRUNCH
Sunday, May 13, 2012
with music by
Douglas Wood & the Wild Spirit Band
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RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
for all our Dinners at the Lake and Brunches
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Dinner at the Lake: Appetizers start at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m., presentation follows dinner
Mother's Day Brunch: seating at 11:30 a.m., concert following brunch
Early bird reservations are $20/adult, $10/child ages 5-12;
reservations made the week of the event are $25/adult and $15/child. |
Reservations are required!
Contact us to make a reservation
888-404-7743 or 320-245-2648
email: audubon1@audubon-center.org
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Mission:
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