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WASHINGTON (Nov. 19, 2009)—A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago.

Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago, and his team unearthed the strange crocs in a series of expeditions beginning in 2000 in the Sahara. Many of the fossils were found lying on the surface of a remote, windswept stretch of rock and dunes. The crocs galloped and swam across present-day Niger and Morocco when broad rivers coursed over lush plains and dinosaurs ruled.

“These species open a window on a croc world completely foreign to what was living on northern continents,” Sereno said. The five crocs, along with a closely related sixth species, will be detailed in a paper published in the journal ZooKeys and appear in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The crocs also will star in a documentary, “When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs,” to premiere at 9 p.m. ET/PT Saturday, Nov. 21, on the National Geographic Channel.

At 40 feet in length and weighing 8 tons, Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, was the first and largest of the crocs Sereno found in the Sahara, but it was not the strangest, Sereno said. He and his teams soon discovered key fossils of five previously unknown or poorly understood species, most of them walking “upright” with their arms and legs under the body like a land mammal instead of sprawled out to the sides, bellies touching the ground.

The crocs and their nicknames:

  • BoarCroc: New species, Kaprosuchus saharicus; fossils found in Niger. Twenty-foot-long upright meat eater with an armored snout for ramming and three sets of dagger-shaped fangs for slicing. Closest relative found in Madagascar.
  • RatCroc: New species, Araripesuchus rattoides; fossils found in Morocco. Three-foot-long, upright plant and grub eater. Pair of buckteeth in lower jaw used to dig for food. Closest relative in South America.
  • PancakeCroc: New species, Laganosuchus thaumastos; fossils found in Niger and Morocco. Twenty-foot-long, squat fish eater with a three-foot pancake-flat head. Spike-shaped teeth on slender jaws. Likely rested motionless for hours, its jaws open and waiting for prey. Closest relative from Egypt. The scientific paper also names a close relative discovered by the team in Morocco, Laganosuchus maghrebensis.
  • DuckCroc: New fossils of previously named species, Anatosuchus minor. Fossils found in Niger. Three-foot-long upright fish-, frog- and grub-eater. Broad, overhanging snout and Pinocchio-like nose. Special sensory areas on the snout end allowed it to root around on the shore and in shallow water for prey. Closest relative in Madagascar.
  • DogCroc: New fossils of named species, Araripesuchus wegeneri. Fossils found in Niger include five skeletons, all next to each other on a single block of rock. Three-foot-long upright plant and grub eater with a soft, doglike nose pointing forward. Likely an agile galloper, but also a capable swimmer. Closest relative in Argentina.

“We were surprised to find so many species from the same time in the same place,” said paleontologist Hans Larsson, associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and a team member who discovered the bones of BoarCroc and PancakeCroc. “Each of the crocs apparently had different diets, different behaviors. It appears they had divided up the ecosystem, each species taking advantage of it in its own way.”

To better understand how these ancient crocs — mostly upright and agile — might have moved and lived, Sereno traveled to northern Australia, where he observed and captured freshwater crocs. Realizing while there that he may have stumbled onto one of the keys to crocodilian success, Sereno saw freshwater crocs galloping at full speed on land and then, at water’s edge, diving in and swimming away like fish. On land they moved much like running mammals, yet in a flash turned fishlike, their bodies and tails moving side to side, propelling them in water.

Based on interpretation of the fossils, Sereno and Larsson hypothesize that these early crocs were small, upright gallopers. In the scientific paper, they suggest that the more agile of their new croc menagerie could not only gallop on land but also evolved a swimming tail for agility and speed in water, two modes of locomotion suggested to be evolutionary hallmarks for the past 200 million years.

“My African crocs appeared to have had both upright, agile legs for bounding overland and a versatile tail for paddling in water,” Sereno writes in the National Geographic magazine article. “Their amphibious talents in the past may be the key to understanding how they flourished in, and ultimately survived, the dinosaur era.”

To study the crocs’ brains, Sereno CT-scanned the skulls of DuckCroc and DogCroc and then created digital and physical casts of the brains. The result: Both DogCroc and DuckCroc had broad, spade-shaped forebrains that look different from those of living crocs. “They may have had slightly more sophisticated brain function than living crocs,” Larsson said, “because active hunting on land usually requires more brain power than merely waiting for prey to show up.”

To collect the croc fossils, Sereno and his teams endured temperatures topping 125 degrees F, living for months on dehydrated food. Logistics were challenging: For the 2000 expedition, they transported trucks, tools, tents, five tons of plaster, 600 pounds of water and four months’ worth of other supplies.

Sereno’s research and field expeditions were funded by the National Geographic Society and the Whitten-Newman Foundation.

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More information on the crocs is available at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091119-dinosaurs-crocodiles-missions.html.

The scientific paper can be accessed at:
http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index

The NGC documentary “When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs” airs Nov. 21 as part of the Channel’s second annual Expedition Week.

WASHINGTON (Nov. 19, 2009)—A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago.

Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago, and his team unearthed the strange crocs in a series of expeditions beginning in 2000 in the Sahara. Many of the fossils were found lying on the surface of a remote, windswept stretch of rock and dunes. The crocs galloped and swam across present-day Niger and Morocco when broad rivers coursed over lush plains and dinosaurs ruled.

“These species open a window on a croc world completely foreign to what was living on northern continents,” Sereno said. The five crocs, along with a closely related sixth species, will be detailed in a paper published in the journal ZooKeys and appear in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The crocs also will star in a documentary, “When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs,” to premiere at 9 p.m. ET/PT Saturday, Nov. 21, on the National Geographic Channel.

At 40 feet in length and weighing 8 tons, Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, was the first and largest of the crocs Sereno found in the Sahara, but it was not the strangest, Sereno said. He and his teams soon discovered key fossils of five previously unknown or poorly understood species, most of them walking “upright” with their arms and legs under the body like a land mammal instead of sprawled out to the sides, bellies touching the ground.

The crocs and their nicknames:

  • BoarCroc: New species, Kaprosuchus saharicus; fossils found in Niger. Twenty-foot-long upright meat eater with an armored snout for ramming and three sets of dagger-shaped fangs for slicing. Closest relative found in Madagascar.
  • RatCroc: New species, Araripesuchus rattoides; fossils found in Morocco. Three-foot-long, upright plant and grub eater. Pair of buckteeth in lower jaw used to dig for food. Closest relative in South America.
  • PancakeCroc: New species, Laganosuchus thaumastos; fossils found in Niger and Morocco. Twenty-foot-long, squat fish eater with a three-foot pancake-flat head. Spike-shaped teeth on slender jaws. Likely rested motionless for hours, its jaws open and waiting for prey. Closest relative from Egypt. The scientific paper also names a close relative discovered by the team in Morocco, Laganosuchus maghrebensis.
  • DuckCroc: New fossils of previously named species, Anatosuchus minor. Fossils found in Niger. Three-foot-long upright fish-, frog- and grub-eater. Broad, overhanging snout and Pinocchio-like nose. Special sensory areas on the snout end allowed it to root around on the shore and in shallow water for prey. Closest relative in Madagascar.
  • DogCroc: New fossils of named species, Araripesuchus wegeneri. Fossils found in Niger include five skeletons, all next to each other on a single block of rock. Three-foot-long upright plant and grub eater with a soft, doglike nose pointing forward. Likely an agile galloper, but also a capable swimmer. Closest relative in Argentina.

“We were surprised to find so many species from the same time in the same place,” said paleontologist Hans Larsson, associate professor at McGill University in Montreal and a team member who discovered the bones of BoarCroc and PancakeCroc. “Each of the crocs apparently had different diets, different behaviors. It appears they had divided up the ecosystem, each species taking advantage of it in its own way.”

To better understand how these ancient crocs — mostly upright and agile — might have moved and lived, Sereno traveled to northern Australia, where he observed and captured freshwater crocs. Realizing while there that he may have stumbled onto one of the keys to crocodilian success, Sereno saw freshwater crocs galloping at full speed on land and then, at water’s edge, diving in and swimming away like fish. On land they moved much like running mammals, yet in a flash turned fishlike, their bodies and tails moving side to side, propelling them in water.

Based on interpretation of the fossils, Sereno and Larsson hypothesize that these early crocs were small, upright gallopers. In the scientific paper, they suggest that the more agile of their new croc menagerie could not only gallop on land but also evolved a swimming tail for agility and speed in water, two modes of locomotion suggested to be evolutionary hallmarks for the past 200 million years.

“My African crocs appeared to have had both upright, agile legs for bounding overland and a versatile tail for paddling in water,” Sereno writes in the National Geographic magazine article. “Their amphibious talents in the past may be the key to understanding how they flourished in, and ultimately survived, the dinosaur era.”

To study the crocs’ brains, Sereno CT-scanned the skulls of DuckCroc and DogCroc and then created digital and physical casts of the brains. The result: Both DogCroc and DuckCroc had broad, spade-shaped forebrains that look different from those of living crocs. “They may have had slightly more sophisticated brain function than living crocs,” Larsson said, “because active hunting on land usually requires more brain power than merely waiting for prey to show up.”

To collect the croc fossils, Sereno and his teams endured temperatures topping 125 degrees F, living for months on dehydrated food. Logistics were challenging: For the 2000 expedition, they transported trucks, tools, tents, five tons of plaster, 600 pounds of water and four months’ worth of other supplies.

Sereno’s research and field expeditions were funded by the National Geographic Society and the Whitten-Newman Foundation.

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More information on the crocs is available at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091119-dinosaurs-crocodiles-missions.html.

The scientific paper can be accessed at:
http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index

The NGC documentary “When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs” airs Nov. 21 as part of the Channel’s second annual Expedition Week.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a University of Florida professor $1.25 million to study factors affecting political stability in the African Sahel, the region south of the Sahara Desert.

A potentially catastrophic food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa could affect as many as one million children. The food and nutrition crisis resulting from a severe drought, threatens the survival of an entire generation of children. Those children in eight countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal – are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. Sparse rainfall, poor harvests and rising food prices have left many vulnerable and weak, seeking medical attention. Sahel is one of the poorest regions in the world where children already face daunting odds of survival. The current crisis makes their survival even more tenuous. Associated Press photographer, Ben Curtis, documented the conditions in the region. — Paula Nelson (EDITORS NOTE: We will not be posting Monday, May 14) (32 photos total)

A woman carries her child amidst dusty winds in the desert near Mondo, a village in the Sahel belt of Chad, April 19, 2012. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under the age of 5 in Chad’s Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Mauritania. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)



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National Geographic Live! is a series of dynamic lectures, live concerts and compelling films presented at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. All programs (unless otherwise noted) will take place in Grosvenor Auditorium at 1600 M Street, NW. Tickets may be purchased online at www.nglive.org, via telephone at (202) 857-7700, or in person at the National Geographic ticket office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Free parking is available in the National Geographic underground garage for all programs that begin after 6 p.m.

SEPTEMBER

THE ELEPHANTS OF SAMBURU
Tuesday, Sept. 9
6:30 PM
Member: $20 / General public: $25

IAIN DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, founder of Save the Elephants, is one of the foremost experts on the African elephant. His work helped make the case for a worldwide ban on the ivory trade. An article in the September 2008 National Geographic profiles him and one of his greatest career successes: the flourishing elephant population in and around the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya. The article’s co-authors, veteran photographer MICHAEL “NICK” NICHOLS and award-winning science, nature and travel writer DAVID QUAMMEN, will join Douglas-Hamilton on stage to present the story and discuss future prospects of Africa’s majestic elephants.

JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND
BIRTHPLACE OF THE AMERICAN IDEAL
Tuesday, Sept. 16
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18

Journey with author ANDREW COCKBURN and photographer KENNETH GARRETT along the 175-mile stretch from Charlottesville, Va. to Gettsyburg, Pa. a backdrop to key events in America’s history. The NG book “Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Birthplace of the American Ideal” tells the story of how and where America happened.” The presentation will be followed by a discussion with leading individuals involved in the preservation of this region, including CATE MAGENNIS WYATT, president, Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership; RON MAXWELL, filmmaker; ROBERT SUTTON, chief historian, National Park Service; KAREN HUGHES WHITE, director of the Afro American Historical Association of Fauquier County, Va.

THE WHITE MARY: AN EVENING WITH KIRA SALAK
Friday, Sept. 19
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / 4-Part series $52 | General public: $18 /
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 4-part series: Member: $52 / General public: $60

Author of the new adventure novel “The White Mary,” KIRA SALAK has traveled solo to almost every continent, becoming the first person to kayak solo 600 miles down West Africa’s Niger River to Timbuktu in Mali. A contributing editor to National Geographic Adventure Magazine, her gripping debut novel tells the story of a woman journalist searching the jungles of New Guinea for the truth about a famed war correspondent thought to have committed suicide. Salak, a 2005 NG Emerging Explorer, will discuss her novel and her own tales of adventure.

BIG KENNY: BEARING LIGHT
Saturday, Sept. 20
7:30 PM
Member: $35 / General public: $40

Grammy award-nominee KENNY ALPHIN is better known as Big Kenny of the country duo Big and Rich. Big Kenny and his wife, Christiev, recently traveled to Sudan in an effort to bring aid and raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis. They recorded their experiences in a documentary film, “Bearing Light: A Journey to Sudan.” On stage, Big Kenny and Christiev will share clips from the film and he will perform a short set of music. This event will be taped for the Nat Geo Music Channel program, GeoSessions.

KILLER STRESS
Tuesday, Sept. 23
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18

The new National Geographic TV Special, “Killer Stress” (which premieres on PBS September 24), reports on wide-ranging discoveries—from studies of baboon troops on the plains of Africa to neuroscience labs in the United States—which show that stress is not just a frame of mind, but something measurable and dangerous. For this premiere screening, executive producer JOHN BREDAR and producer/writer JOHN HEMINGWAY will be joined by ROBERT SAPOLSKY, Stanford University neurobiologist and author of the best-selling “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” for a discussion on the making of and the issues raised by this new National Geographic Special.

POP FLY: JUSTIN ROBERTS IN CONCERT
Saturday, Sept. 27
Noon & 3 PM
Adults: $16 / Kids 12 & Under: $12

Get set as JUSTIN ROBERTS and his NOT READY FOR NAPTIME PLAYERS serve up a delightful array of intelligent—but still rockin’—family music, complete with mosh pit! Hear music from Justin’s latest album Pop Fly, which has already been hailed as “another genre-swirling grand slam” by Cookie magazine. Roberts has won five Parents’ Choice Gold Awards. Order your tickets early for what promises to be one of D.C.’s hottest family concerts this fall!

OCTOBER

EVERYDAY SURVIVAL WHY SMART PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS
Wednesday, Oct. 1
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 4-part series: Member: $52 / General public: $60

In his latest book “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things,” survival expert LAURENCE GONZALES shows how modern society has made us lazy, numbing our awareness to the risks around us. This follow-up to his highly acclaimed Deep Survival, which offered advice on surviving extreme situations such as being lost in the wilderness, encourages us to cultivate curiosity, awareness and attention so that we are better prepared to navigate the hazards of everyday life. Whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder, this presentation will change the way you view your choices in our complex and increasingly dangerous world.

ALL ROADS FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 2-5
4-day festival pass: Members: $40 / General public: $56

The National Geographic All Roads Film Festival celebrates its fifth year this fall in Washington, D.C., as it presents contemporary stories of indigenous and underrepresented minority cultures through a four-day showcase of film, photography and music Oct. 2-5. Highlights of this year’s festival include “As We Forgive,” an emotional tale of loss and reconciliation by D.C.-native Laura Waters Hinson, winner of a 2008 Student Academy Award; “The Linguists” a documentary by filmmakers Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, who travel off the map to remote villages in Siberia, India and Bolivia to follow two obsessed college professors on a quest to preserve languages on the brink of extinction; and “La Americana,” a look at the emotional dilemma faced by immigrants, by director Nicholas Bruckman. On Friday, Oct. 3, All Roads will host a free performance by the Somali hip-hop MC, griot and singer/songwriter K’Naan, who will debut music from his new album “Troubadour.” The festival is part of the All Roads Film Project, which supports diverse cultural perspectives through the film festival, grants, a photography program and other opportunities for filmmakers and photographers to celebrate the vibrant cultural stories of our world. Visit www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads for more information.

TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI
Monday, Oct. 6
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18

“Taking Root” tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize laureate WANGARI MAATHAI, who led a movement in her native Kenya to safeguard the environment. Maathai became the first woman to both earn a Ph.D. and head a university department in that country. She came to international attention as founder of the Green Belt Movement, which helps restore forests while paying women to plant trees. Through the group, she has helped women plant more than 30 million trees across Africa, and has taken courageous stands for democracy and women’s rights. The screening is followed by discussion with filmmakers ALAN DATER and LISA MERTON and CHRIS TUITE, director of the Green Belt Movement, Washington, D.C.
Co-sponsored with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital

OCEANS 8 TO ANTARCTICA
Tuesday, Oct. 7
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 4-part series: Member: $52 / General public: $60

In 1999 kayaker and adventure writer JON BOWERMASTER began a long-term project to explore the world’s seven continents and Oceania by sea kayak. Supported by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, and documented in a series of films now airing on NG Channel internationally, Bowermaster led teams of photographers, filmmakers and scientists on adventures to places like the Aleutians, the coast of Vietnam, the islands of French Polynesia, and this year, Antarctica. Join Bowermaster as he shares highlights of his latest journey, paddling to the bottom of the world.

KAHURANGI MAORI DANCE THEATRE
Wednesday, Oct. 15
7:30 PM
Member: $24 / General public: $28

THE KAHURANGI MAORI DANCE THEATRE has introduced audiences around the world to the vibrant culture of the native Maori people of New Zealand with chants in honor of ancestors, martial arts demonstrations and powerful songs of Maori pride. This event is presented in conjunction with the new NG Museum exhibition Whales Tohorā from the Te Papa museum of New Zealand.
NG Museum and Store open until 7:15 PM on this date. Exhibition dates: Oct 15-Jan 4, 2009.

WHALE RIDER
Saturday, Oct. 18
Noon
Free. No tickets required.

This award winning film is being presented to mark the opening of the NG Museum exhibition Whales Tohorā. “Whale Rider,” featuring a performance that earned an Academy Award Best Actress nomination for Keisha Castle-Hughes, tells the story of a courageous young Maori girl who is put to the test of respecting tradition while accepting change when a group of whales are mysteriously stranded on her village’s beach. Don’t miss a screening of other films by Maori filmmakers, presented by the All Roads Film Project, on Nov. 1.

THE GREAT WARMING: THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS
Monday, Oct. 20
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
EXPLORING THE PAST 3-part series: Members $39 | General public: $45

A popular and respected writer on archaeology, BRIAN FAGAN has produced a series of provocative books that uncover the role climate change has played in the key turning points of human history. His latest book, “The Great Warming,” tells the fascinating story of the Medieval Warm Period, when warmer conditions brought good harvests and growing populations to Europe—but also brought drought and famine to North and Central America. Join Fagan to learn how the past might advise us for the future.

WINDOWS OF THE SOUL: MY JOURNEYS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Tuesday, Oct. 21
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
FOCAL POINT 4-part series: Members $52 / General public $60

Stunning courage and matchless skill with the camera are the twin hallmarks of ALEXANDRA AVAKIAN’s fascinating career as a photojournalist who has spent two decades traveling the globe to document the culture of the Muslim world. A frequent contributor to National Geographic, Time and The New York Times Magazine, Avakian’s new book “Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World,” offers a timely portrait of a diverse culture where love, honor and deep faith collide in a life-or-death conflict with intolerance and anger. From the Gaza Strip to war-torn Somalia to Uzbekistan, Avakian will offer arresting images and fast-moving tales from inside the Muslim world.

HEIRS TO THE ARCTIC: THE 2008 ELLESMERE ISLAND EXPEDITION
Thursday, Oct. 23
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
QUEST FOR ADVENTURE 4-part series: Member: $52 / General public: $60

For decades, veteran polar explorer WILL STEGER has worked tirelessly to call the world’s attention to the environmental threats facing the Arctic and Antarctic. Now he aims to prepare the next generation of polar explorers to carry the torch. Earlier this year he led a team of young explorers on an expedition by dogsled across Ellesmere Island, the northernmost island in the Canadian Arctic, to study the effects of climate change in the high Arctic. Joining Steger on stage are expedition members and recent NG Young Explorer grantees BEN HORTON and SARAH MCNAIR-LANDRY.

THE LIFE OF A PHOTOGRAPH
Tuesday, Oct. 28
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
FOCAL POINT 4-part series: Members $52 / General public $60

Veteran National Geographic photographer SAM ABELL offers a look inside the heart and mind of a master photographer with his new National Geographic Focal Point book “The Life of a Photograph.” His book allows the reader to witness the innovative techniques and frame-by-frame process by which Abell has created his most stunning photographs, many published for the first time.

TRIBES OF THE GREEN SAHARA
Wednesday, Oct. 29
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
EXPLORING THE PAST 3-part series: Members $39 / General public: $45

In 2000, NG Explorer-in-Residence PAUL SERENO was surveying a 300-mile-long stretch of the Sahara when a member of his team sighted human bones mixed with stone tools. Sereno returned to the site in 2005 with ELENA GARCEA, an archaeologist who has studied the ancient peoples of the Sahara. She identified the remains as belonging to people who inhabited the Sahara during the “Green Sahara” period, when the climate was cooler. They will be joined on stage by bio-archaeologist CHRIS STOJANOWSKI.

EMERGING EXPLORERS SALON
Thursday, Oct. 30
7:30 PM
Members $25 / General public $30 (Must be 21 or older)

Meet biological anthropologist JILL PRUETZ, who has been carrying out a long-term study of chimpazees in the savannah of Senegal—the first ever extended field study of savannah chimps—and humanitarian and musician ZINHLE THABETHE, an activist on behalf of HIV-positive South Africans, who is a lead vocalist in the Sinikithemba Choir, an internationally acclaimed HIV-positive vocal ensemble. BOYD MATSON, host of “Wild Chronicles” on PBS and “NG Weekend,” will moderate. Wine, cheese and light refreshments will be served. This event held in the National Geographic Channel Studio at 1145 17th Street NW. NG Museum and Store open until 7:15 PM on this date.

NOVEMBER

PHOTOGRAPHING UNDERWATER WORLDS
Thursday, Nov. 6
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY 3-part series: Members $39 | General public: $45

Underwater photographer BRIAN SKERRY has covered a diverse range of stories, from the harp seal’s struggle to survive in frozen waters to the alarming decrease in the world’s fisheries. In recent National Geographic stories, Skerry photographed the lush tropical wonderland of Kingman Reef in the South Pacific and documented the plight of the right whale, threatened by heavy shipping along the coastal waters it frequents.

“Whales Tohorā” exhibition and NG Store open until 7:15 PM on this date.

DIVING WITH WHALES AND SHARKS
Saturday, Nov. 8
Noon
Adults: $16 / Kids 12 & Under: $12

Photographer BRIAN SKERRY, author of “A Whale on Her Own: The True Story of Wilma the Beluga Whale,” will take kids on a dive into the worlds of whales and sharks, showing how even these powerful animals face challenges to their survival.

ODYSSEYS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Monday, Nov. 10
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
FOCAL POINT 4-part series: Members $52 / General public $60

The new National Geographic Focal Point book “Odysseys and Photographs: Four National Geographic Field Men,” celebrates the lives and work of four photojournalists, Maynard Owen Williams, Volkmar Wentzel, Luis Marden and Thomas Abercrombie, whose careers spanned nearly a century of global upheaval and riveting human drama, and whose distinguished body of work helped define photojournalism. Authors LEAH BENDAVID-VAL and MARK JENKINS will share stories of these remarkable men along with their images, while acclaimed actors ROBERT PROSKY and RICK FOUCHEUX will bring the words to life.
Visit companion exhibition in 1600 M Street lobby through Jan 4

THE BEST OF MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR
Thursday, Nov. 13
7 PM
Friday, Nov. 14
7 PM
One night: Member: $16 / General public: $20
Both nights: Member: $27 / General public: $34

This year the Mountainfilm in Telluride Festival celebrated its 30th year of presenting films “about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.” By popular demand, Mountainfilm has been expanded to two nights.

THURSDAY, NOV. 13 – 7 PM
DAILYSTRIP—In a pub, a man imagines the misadventures of a noisy group of extreme characters. (5 min / Filmmaker: Ride the Planets)
VIA BEARZI—This is the late Michael Bearzi’s film of his attempted first ascent of Gyachung Kang, completed by his friends, filmmakers Jeff Alzner and Brook Kirklin. (33 min)
ALAGADOS—An inhabitant of a desperately poor neighborhood in Brazil attempts to live
a life of dignity despite the poverty that surrounds him. (30 min / Filmmaker: Sylvia Johnson)
THE CHAMP—The heartwarming story of a young girl with a fierce right hook. (7 min /Filmmaker: Peter Jordan)
SHIKASHIKA —n the Andes, snow cones are made with the real thing. (11 min / Filmmaker: Stephen Hyde)
THE GOOD FIGHT—The story of Martin Litton, a pioneer of the early environmental movement. (45 min / Filmmakers: James Fox and Mark Fraser)

FRIDAY, NOV. 14 – 7 PM
SPRAY: WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY—A portrait of a young climber and his relationship with the dramatic coast of Northern California. (15 min / Filmmaker: Brian Solano)
LOSING THE ELEPHANTS—Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park offers rescued animals a chance to be elephants again. (23 min / Filmmaker: Peck Euwer)
THE LAST FRONTIER: CONSERVATION AND EXPLORATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA—A kayaking first-descent film by a NG Young Explorer grantee pays homage to biodiversity and ancient customs. (26 min / Filmmaker: Trip Jennings)
SPONSOR ME, JAKE—The early-season itch takes snow lunacy to another level. (5 min / Filmmaker: Vince Franke )
I MET THE WALRUS—John Lennon explains his worldview to a 14-year-old with a tape recorder. (5 min / Filmmaker: Josh Raskin)
RED GOLD—Mining companies battle Native fishermen to extract gold and copper from a critical salmon habitat. (60 min / Filmmakers: Ben Knight and Travis Rummel)

CAMP LISA
Saturday, Nov. 15
1 PM
Adults: $16 / Kids 12 & Under: $12

Popular singer-songwriter LISA LOEB recently released a children’s music CD, “Camp Lisa,” a celebration of summer camp with new tunes and old favorites, featuring guest musicians Steve Martin and Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo. These CDs are a follow up to her 2003 Parents’ Choice award-winning album “Catch the Moon.” Loeb recently composed and performed a song based on a NG Children’s Books Planet Contest which challenged kids to create a mnemonic to remember the order of the 11 planets. Relive the fun of camp at the coolest summer camp around—Camp Lisa!

BORNEO PARADISE UNDER SIEGE
Monday, Nov. 17
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY 3-part series: Members $39 / General public: $45

One of the most highly regarded natural history photographers, MATTIAS KLUM has a special passion for Borneo, where he has spent 20 years producing magazine articles, books and films. For an upcoming National Geographic story, Klum returned to Borneo to document the rampant destruction that has already claimed 75 percent of Borneo’s lowland rain forest and threatens its reclusive Penan tribe along with orangutans and pygmy elephants. His exposé of rampant logging and the burgeoning oil palm plantations are a call for us to examine our appetite for consumer goods. Don’t miss this powerful and disturbing vision of what might be the Borneo rain forest’s last stand.
Presented in conjunction with FotoWeek DC.

EXPLORING THE WORLD OF OLIVE OIL
Wednesday, Nov. 19
7 PM
Member: $50 / General public: $60 (Must be 21 or older.)

STEVEN JENKINS, the country’s foremost cheesemonger and, according to The New York Times,”the enfant terrible of the fancy food market,” returns to share another of his passions—olive oil. Jenkins will share extraordinary artisanal oils paired with gourmet food, explaining the process by which olive oil goes from tree to table. Joining Steven to introduce companion wines will be JOSHUA WESSON, master sommelier and co-founder of Best Cellars.
Presented with support from Best Cellars wine stores at Dupont Circle and Clarendon Boulevard

NEAR AND FAR A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY
Tuesday, Nov. 25
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY 3-part series: Members $39 / General public: $45

ED KASHI, described by National Geographic’s director of photography as “one of the best of a new breed of photojournalistic artists,” is a photographer/ filmmaker dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. His work for National Geographic has taken him from India, where a superhighway connecting the country’s largest cities symbolizes its economic growth, to Africa’s Niger Delta, where large oil reserves have proved to be more of a curse than a blessing to the local inhabitants. He has also done work closer to home, such as documenting the plight of his own family’s struggle to care for an aging parent.

DECEMBER

REZA: WAR+PEACE
Tuesday, Dec. 2
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
FOCAL POINT 4-part series: Members $52 / General public $60

This distinguished Iranian photographer and humanitarian is renowned for his ability to capture dramatic, paradoxically beautiful images from some of the world’s most troubled places. This event celebrates the release of REZA’s new National Geographic Focal Point book, “Reza: War + Peace,” a retrospective of 30 years of memorable work. Author/journalist SEBASTIAN JUNGER (“Perfect Storm”) wrote the introduction to this book and will join him on stage. Reza is also the founder of Aïna, a nonprofit organization created to foster a strong and free press, cultural expression and education in Afghanistan and other places rebuilding after war and conflict.

DECODING STONEHENGE
Thursday, Dec. 4
7:30 PM
Member: $15 / General public: $18
EXPLORING THE PAST 3-part series: Members $39 | General public: $45

Archaeologist and Stonehenge Riverside Project director MIKE PARKER PEARSON returns to National Geographic this fall to deliver an update on his latest discoveries from Salisbury Plain and elaborate on his theory that Stonehenge originally served as a memorial and resting place for the dead.

IRISH CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA
Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12
7:30 PM
Member: $25 / General public: $30

Returning for a fourth consecutive season, the show is a lively evening of stories, images and music from the Emerald Isle. The all-new 2008 show will feature one of Ireland’s best-known traditional singers KARAN CASEY along with TÉADA members OISIN MAC DIARMADA, SEAN MCELWAIN and TRISTAN ROSENSTOCK, plus harp virtuoso GRÁINNE HAMBLY and uillean piper TOMMY MARTIN.

TUESDAYS AT NOON
Free- No Tickets Required
Enjoy this free series of films most Tuesdays, at noon.

Sept. 23
A SHOUT INTO THE WIND (2007, 57 min): The Skolt Sámi people struggle to keep their traditions and memories alive.

Sept. 30
4REAL – K’NAAN (2008): A profile of Somali-born hip-hop artist K’naan, who has survived war to become a voice for peace. 4REAL – CITY OF GOD (2008): A Brazilian hip-hop star works to bring a better life to the children of his city’s slums. Both films will be introduced by series creators Sol Guy and Josh Thome.

Oct. 7
AROUND TASMANIA (2006, 26 min) and LOST COAST OF GABON (2004, 26 min): Adventurer and author Jon Bowermaster introduces two films from his Oceans 8 film series, documenting his sea kayaking expeditions to Tasmania and Gabon.

Oct. 14 No Tuesdays at Noon screening.

Oct. 21
REZA: SHOOTING BACK (2008, 49 min): A profile of Reza, a photojournalist and humanitarian who has turned his camera into a weapon against war.
Oct. 28 APE GENIUS (2008, 60 min) New discoveries about ape behavior.

Nov. 4
THE GIRL WITH EIGHT LIMBS (2008, 47 min): Viewed as an embodiment of the goddess Lakhsmi by many in her village, an Indian girl born with a parasitic twin undergoes a dangerous operation in hopes of living a normal life.

Nov. 11
EARTH: THE BIOGRAPHY: Two episodes, Volcanoes and Atmosphere (each 2008, 45 min), from geologist Dr. Iain Stewart’s five-part series on the NGC examining the awesome natural forces that have shaped out planet.

Nov. 18
AT CLOSE RANGE (2007, 60 min): National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore reveals the danger and hardship experienced in the field. (FotoWeek DC screening)

Nov. 25
STONEHENGE DECODED (2008, 94 min): New discoveries suggest a new understanding of Britain’s most famous Stone Age monument.

Dec. 2
AMERICA’SWILD SPACES: THE EVERGLADES (2008, 54 min): A visually stunning look at the world’s most famous wetland and the people who are trying to protect it. Introduced by filmmaker Brian Armstrong.

All screenings held in Grosvenor Auditorium

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