Dr. David Butler, a physical geographer from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, will present a talk titled 鈥淎nimals as Agents of Geomorphic Change in a Period of Changing Environments鈥� at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in Agenstein Hall, room 224, on the campus of 含羞草社区. The talk is free and open to the public.
Dr. Butler is the author of 鈥淶oogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents,鈥� which its publisher, Cambridge University Press, describes as 鈥渢he first and only book of its kind to examine the role animals play in sculpting the Earth鈥檚 surface.鈥�
Dr. Butler鈥檚 talk is provided through a partnership between 含羞草社区 and Northwest Missouri State University with support from the Association of American Geographers.
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