Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home
Date & Time
Thursday, October 12
6 p.m. PST
This event is in the past.
Tickets
FREE virtual event;
Registration required
Location
Join Lynda V. Mapes, journalist and author of Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, for a one-hour virtual program. This event looks at the world of the endangered southern resident orcas and provides updates on the status of Salish Sea whales. Lynda will be joined in conversation by Donny Stevenson, vice chair, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.
Lynda is an award-winning staff reporter at The Seattle Times, where she covers the environment, natural history, and Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest. She offers a unique window into these creatures’ lives — their remarkable intelligence, rich culture, lifelong family ties, and elaborate communication — and hope for the future.
This event is FREE and open to all.
This program is presented in partnership with Braided River and Washington Conservation Action. It is one of many programs for We Are Puget Sound, the current special exhibit at the Burke Museum open through December 31, 2023.
Photo: Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times
About the Speaker
Lynda Mapes is a staff reporter at The Seattle Times, where she covers the environment, natural history, and Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest. She is a two-time winner of the international Kavli Gold Award for science journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for her reporting on orcas (2019) and dam removal on the Elwha River (2012). She won top honors in 2019 from the national Online News Association and the national Headliner’s award for the The Seattle Times series, “Hostile Waters: Orcas in Peril.” The Western Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named Lynda Journalist of the Year in 2019 and NOAA Fisheries recognized her in 2016 with the prestigious Dr. Nancy Foster Habitat Conservation Award. In 2013–14 Lynda was awarded a 9-month Knight fellowship in Science Journalism at MIT. In 2014–15, she was a Bullard Fellow at the Harvard Forest, learning the human and natural history of a single, 100-year old oak. In addition to her staff position at the The Seattle Times, Lynda has authored six books and is an associate of the Harvard Forest at Harvard University. She lives in Seattle.
Learn more about the book Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home at orca-story.com.
