Learn about the future of birds and biodiversity in this engaging and stimulating presentation, Thursday, September 18 at 7:30 pm in Room 229 of Peters Science Hall at Kansas Wesleyan University.

This free program will cover the latest Audubon data and research on the changing climate, shifts in geographical ranges, long term ramifications & predictions, and what you can do to help change our present global course.

A recently released study deals with the specific threats to North America’s birds, noting which birds are most threatened by climate change, and where. Presenters will
be Smoky Hill Audubon Society President Dan Baffa, and SHAS Treasurer Jeffrey Kasoff.

Dan Baffa has devoted his life to the conservation of species. As a zoo employee since 1969 he’s worked as an animal keeper at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, general curator at the Indianapolis Zoo, director at the Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville Indiana and retired as Zoo Director of the zoo in Garden City Kansas. He’s served or been chairman of several boards and committees including chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Garden City Community College where he was influential in establishing the first ammonia refrigeration school in the country. He is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Garden City Leadership and Kansas Environmental Leadership Program.

Jeffrey Kasoff has a lifelong interest in the natural world and what science can tell us about its past, present, and future processes. His interest in environment extends back to his early undergraduate days taking a course titled ‘Problems in the Marine Environment’. His professional life, working in manufacturing, honed his problem-solving and critical thinking skills. His current ambition is to bring science and rational investigation alive for the general public and citizen scientist.

He has a BS in Biochemistry from State University of NY at Stony Brook and a BSME from New Jersey Institute of
Technology.
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