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The state of the arts in Jackson Hole is strong.
That is, if the National Museum of Wildlife Artâs new exhibit, âState of the Art: Student Art Show,â is any indication.
After closing for several weeks to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, the wildlife art museum reopened Feb. 16. It is now open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, with plans to resume its normal seven-day schedule May 1.
Currently on exhibit are photographer Noppadol Paothongâs âSage Grouse: Icons of the Westâ and a âLiving Legacyâ tribute to wildlife art master Robert Bateman, along with jazz trumpeter-cum-sculptor Herb Alpertâs âSpirit Totemsâ on the edge of the museumâs hillside perch.
Pluvial lakes offer insights
What does the rise and fall of latest Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin have to tell us about water and carbon cycles, landscape response to climate change, and how the role the continents play in modulating habitable surface conditions over geologic time?
Beats me, but Daniel Enrique Ibarra, visiting assistant professor of environment and society at Brown University, has some thoughts about the subject. And he will share them at the next presentation of the Geologists of Jackson Hole, set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 via Zoom.
“Early geologists documented extensive lacustrine shoreline deposits in many terminal basins of the Great Basin,” GeologistsOfJacksonHole.org writes, “and in doing so formally documented evidence for many classic Earth science concepts including uniformitarianism, isostasy and diastrophism, and glacial-interglacial cycles.”