Noon Seminars

Join us the first Saturday of every month for a seminar with experts on various topics. The lunchtime session will be held at noon in Boone 103.

January 5, 2019 — Steve Bouffard “Bird Brains”

February 2, 2019 — William H. Clark “50 Years of Baja California, Mexico, Entomology”

March 2, 2019 — Nathan E Carpenter “Tertiary Tectonics and Drainage Patterns in the Pacific Northwest”
* will be held in Boone 116

April 6, 2019 — Dr. Barbara Ertter “Yukon Botany:  Bennett's BABY, Canadian Oil, and of course Potentilla”
* will be held in Boone 116

May 4, 2019 — Dr. Rochelle Johnson “Transatlantic Origins of American Environmental Thought”

June 1, 2019 — Howard Emry “Oligocene Fossil Flora in Creede, Colorado”

July 6, 2019 — Paul Castrovillo “Biology and Identification of White Butterflies Found in the Boise Area”

August 3, 2019 — Dr. James Ryan “Insects & Microbes”

September 7, 2019 — Dr. Luc Leblanc “Revisiting the Pacific two Decades Later: Fruit Fly Surveys in the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.”

October 5, 2019 — Danielle Lewis “Stolen Tears: Appropriation of the ‘Noble Savage’ as an Environmental Icon”

November 2, 2019 — Dr. Eric Yensen “Coexistence of Columbian and Northern Idaho Ground Squirrels: Competition or Habitat Separation?”

December 7, 2019 — Gipson Honors Students “Museum Specimens and the Meaning of Things”


The Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History is located in the basement of Boone Science Hall at The College of Idaho. Come explore the varied exhibits from insects around the world, African mammals, ancient archaeology, and much more!