Presented as part of the Museum's Mountain Voices series. To register for this FREE Zoom presentation, please email Rebecca Enman at rrenman@plymouth.edu In September 1915, Laurie Whitehill’s grandparents, and four other hikers, were stranded for five days in the newly built Lake-of-the-Clouds hut on Mt. Washington. Trapped by a raging snowstorm, they endured bitter cold, scant food, and no [...]
Join us to hear students talk about their Bachelor of Fine Arts year experience and their artworks/products. Attendees will be able to ask questions. Free and open to all. Link to join the Zoom event: https://plymouthstate.zoom.us/j/89688492516
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register The presentation will provide an introduction to LiDAR technology and how it works, provide numerous examples of applications with plenty of examples of LiDAR images and an emphasis on glacial landforms, and conclude with a segment on stone walls as landforms, their [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Learn how Indigenous people explored, navigated, and traveled. Explore how and why Indigenous people graphically described their world, geology, and geography, and the place name locations, rivers, lakes, and other geographic features that were important to Indigenous people in New [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Between our experience of the world and our knowledge of the world lies the map. Whether the purpose of a map is to locate a source of food to gather, to display a territory ripe for exploitation to a faraway [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register This program features the story of Raised Relief maps, which are three-dimensional representations of a portion of the Earth’s surface. These maps have a long history of use, dating back over 2,000-years to the Qin and Han dynasties. We will [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Climbing all the 4000 foot mountains in NH is a goal for many hikers in the Granite State. Learn how an interest in hiking, orienteering, map making, and teaching topography culminated in a collection of painted 3D models of all the 48 [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register Have you ever tried to retrace the steps of an explorer from before your time? Attempted to use an old map to guide you around a modern landscape? In this presentation we’ll look at the White Mountains through early 20th [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register We have a rich history of cartography in the White Mountains, from George Bond (1853) to William Pickering (1882) to Louis Cutter (1907) to Brad Washburn (1987). Until recently, we were limited in our ability to interpret our world to [...]
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required. Click here to register What do wild animals do every day? Many of us have no idea. There are stories hidden in the natural communities around us waiting to be discovered. Squam Lakes Natural Science Center developed the Hidden Stories project to reveal these stories on its 200 acre campus. [...]