BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260509T200000Z DTEND:20260509T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Birds Up Close with Author Lorna Gibson DESCRIPTION:The new book\, 'Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders' by Lorna Gibson\, brings an engineer's eye to the natural world. Drawing on her career as an engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her lifelong passion for birding\, Gibson reveals how birds function through the lens of structure\, materials\, and design. She investigates feathers\, bones\, bills\, eggs\, and flight zooming in to the microscopic scale and stepping back to examine their larger structural systems.\n\nIn this illustrated presentation\, Lorna shares highlights from the book and answers fun and fascinating questions like: Why\, and how\, are duck feathers so water repellent? And how do phalaropes draw plankton-containing water droplets up their bills when they lack lips?\n\nDiscover how engineering principles illuminate the hidden mechanics of birds. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The new book\, '\;Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders'\; by Lorna Gibson\, brings an engineer'\;s eye to the natural world. Drawing on her career as an engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her lifelong passion for birding\, Gibson reveals how birds function through the lens of structure\, materials\, and design. She investigates feathers\, bones\, bills\, eggs\, and flight&mdash\;zooming in to the microscopic scale and stepping back to examine their larger structural systems.

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In this illustrated presentation\, Lorna shares highlights from the book and answers fun and fascinating questions like: Why\, and how\, are duck feathers so water repellent? And how do phalaropes draw plankton-containing water droplets up their bills when they lack lips?

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Discover how engineering principles illuminate the hidden mechanics of birds. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

\n LOCATION:Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary UID:e.2118.23596 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260417T034510Z URL:https://members.orleanscapecod.org/events/details/birds-up-close-with-author-lorna-gibson-23596 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR