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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: RAY TROLL!
Check out Ray's website!
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For those of you who're going to be in the Denver area, Ray's
traveling exhibition, "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway," will
be part of the "Colossal Fossil Vacation" at the Denver Museum
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CORE PRESENTATIONS AND MINI-WORKSHOPS
Presentations will include:
Paul Mirocha, on his expeditions to the Malaysian rainforest
to research and document the honey hunters in preparation for
a ethno-eco-biological kids' book
Amelia Janes, on the organization of a team which secured
funding; and wrote, illustrated, and published a top-selling historical
atlas in celebration of Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial
Mark Ortman, "The Realities of Book Publishing"
(debunking publishing myths, how to find, then attract a commercial
publisher or agent, the risks and rewards of subsidy publishing,
and when to self-publish)
John Clement, national award-winning photographer, on "Seasons
of the Drylands."
Geologic, botanical, bird, and fish illustration seminars
presented by specialists.
Scott Rawlins, analyzing the secrets of the famous glass sculptures
of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, and relating their methods to
contemporary models.
Karen Ackoff looks at the work of artists from the past and
present, examining the qualities that are unique to scientific
illustration and the artist-scholar.
Elaine Hodges, " Entomological Illustration," presenting insect
anatomy, the handling of specimens, methods to achieve accuracy,
examples of techniques, styles, and areas of work.
Grant writing; Educational outreach.
Britt Griswold, on how to use and participate in the Science
Insights searchable art website.
Bob Tope and Wendy Smith, "Adventures in the Field."
Nothing beats "being there" when it comes to doing
research for your projects.
Rick Leaumont, recipient of the 1998 National Audubon Society
Conservationist of the Year Award for his work on the Hanford
Reach "The Columbia's Final Fifty."
MORE IN THE WORKS!!
PANEL DISCUSSIONS will include:
The business of illustration, price negotiation, marketing yourself
as an illustrator
Creative studio spaces (including slides of members' spaces
- send yours to Kris Kirkeby!); challenges of home studios (dealing
with family, maintaining a social life, etc.)
Combining digital and traditional techniques in illustrating
(rather than an illustration done completely traditionally or
completely digitally, find out how illustrators use BOTH in a
given illustration, with slides of finished illustrations).
MINI-WORKSHOPS AND TECHNIQUES DEMOS
Jerry Hodge on Gouache
Jerry Hodge on Line
Kathy Barker on Silverpoint
Marlene Donnelly, on her famous time-saving Black and White Stippling
Technique
Frank Ippolito on 3-D Computer Modeling
Basic Web Design and Editing
PowerPoint
Techniques Boutique
MORE!!
Special Workshop
THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING, with Mark Ortman. Self-publishing
has become the fastest growing segment in the publishing industry
today. Learn how to launch a book from start to finish, including:
how industry changes are influencing independent publishing,
the costs and expenses to publish on your own, distribution options
and creative ways to create a demand through publicity and promotion.
Mark Ortman, author, publisher and workshop leader says: "getting
my expectations bruised and learning the hard way have been my
best teachers. Save yourself the trouble by dreaming with your
eyes wide open." Mark is the recipient of nine national
instructional awards for his inspiring teaching style. His numerous
published works include the award-winning Simple Guide to Self-Publishing
and the Simple Guide to Marketing Your Book.
MINI-CONFERENCE
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Molecular and Cellular Illustration at the GNSI 1999 Annual
Meeting
With the current boom in the pharmaceutical and genetic engineering
industries, there has never been a better time to be a molecular
or cellular illustrator. A short "mini-conference"
at the GNSI 1999 Annual Meeting will explore the techniques that
are being used, the opportunities that are available, and some
of the beautiful work that has been done recently. If you are
interested in speaking at this event, please contact David S.
Goodsell at (619) 784-2839 or goodsell@scripps.edu
To get a taste of molecular illustration, click on the image. |
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TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS
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Sculpting the Anatomy of the Human Head
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Instructor: Betty Pat Gatliff |
In this exciting new two day workshop, students will work
from a cast to first sculpt the human skull from plastaline clay,
then precisely add the facial muscles to one half on the second
day. For all of us who incorporate the human figure in our work,
this is a great opportunity to learn skeletal and muscular anatomy
from an expert, on a level far beyond what is taught in art schools.
Clay will be provided (small additional fee), and participants
will keep their sculptures as permanent references.
Betty Pat Gatliff is a freelance medical illustrator and forensic
sculptor, currently a consultant with the Oklahoma Bureau of
Investigation and the Office of the Medical Examiner Oklahoma.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
She has been a technical consultant/sculptor for Universal Studios,
Quincy; U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Assassinations,
and the U.S. Park Services, Custer Battlefield. She is the author
of numerous articles.
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Painting in Gouache
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Instructor: Gerald P. Hodge |
Jerry Hodge is well known for his super-realistic, fool-the-eye
style, and this workshop will introduce various ideas and tricks
pertaining to lighting, shadows and style so that students can
obtain extremely realistic qualities in their paintings. Different
surfaces will be discussed and the student will learn to apply
smooth, flat areas, and to acquire form and texture by dry-brushing
and using wet washes.
Jerry Hodge received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from
the University of Colorado, and completed his graduate work in
medical art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the founder of
the MFA program at University of Michigan. He has given numerous
workshops in gouache at GNSI Meetings, New York Botanical Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Scottsdale Artist's School, etc. His
work has won many awards including two Best of Shows at AMI meetings.
He has been featured twice in Step-By-Step Graphics.
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Pencil and Ink on White Scratchboard
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Instructor: Trudy Nicholson |
Trudy's exquisite scratchboard drawings are unparalleled. In
this workshop, slides and discussions will cover materials and
tools, composition, creating pen and ink textures with ink lines
on white and
white line scratched from ink; creating dramatic effects; balancing
lights and darks; corrections, and the use of color. There will
be demonstrations of pencil and pen and ink working techniques.
Each student will bring simple subjects (such as pinecones, shells,
feathers, and fruit), from which they will sketch a composition
using two or more subjects, transfer their sketches to scratchboard,
and work toward completing a small illustration in either pencil
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Trudy Nicholson graduated from Columbia University, majoring
in fine art, and from Massachusetts General Hospital School of
Medical Illustration. She worked as a medical illustrator at
the National Institutes of Health for many years, also freelancing
in other scientific fields. She is now freelancing in wildlife
and scientific illustration.
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Scientific Illustration with Mixed Media
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Instructor: Lynette Cook |
Join us for an intensive workshop where we'll use several
different media to create realistic scientific renderings. This
color mixed-media technique combines watercolor, gouache, colored
pencils and acrylics, and achieves photographic results more
quickly than working in a single medium. We'll
first render a foreground with watercolor and Prismacolor, and
then put in an acrylic airbrushed background. Here's a special
opportunity to learn the tricks from an expert!
Lynette Cook double majored in Biology and Drawing & Painting
at the Mississippi University for Women, completing a Bachelor
of Science degree in a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree a year later.
She received an MFA from the California College of Arts &
Crafts. Lynette is the Artist/Photographer for the Morrison
Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Freelance clients include book and periodical publishers,
such as: Houghton Mifflin, Random House, Omni, RN, and Sky & Telescope.
Lynette also has exhibited her original, award-winning art across
the country at major museums and research centers, including
the American Museum of Natural History, NASA Ames Research Center,
the Smithsonian, Space Center Houston, and Stanford University.
While the Artist began working in the fields of botany, general
biology, and zoology, she has focused on astronomy in recent
years.
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Transparent Watercolor, Masking, Salt and Other Techniques
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Instructor: John Cody, M.D.
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This workshop introduces participants the methods and materials
that John Cody uses to render his natural science subjects in
meticulous detail. His work and techniques differ from those
of other watercolorists in several ways. Most paint their subjects
by applying broader washes first, then building detail; John
renders details first, then applies integrating washes. While
few natural science artists use painted backgrounds, much of John's work is set against rich and brilliant backgrounds which
are painted first. John will demonstrate techniques for creating
backgrounds including masking, glazing, saran-wrap, and salt
and alcohol applications, as well as his "detail first"
approach. Participants will have an opportunity to work on a
painting of a simple natural object (shell, leaves, insects,
flowers etc.) to try these techniques.
John Cody is a medical and natural science illustrator whose spectacular,
award-winning paintings of moths have been exhibited nationally
in one-artist shows, and featured in magazine articles. His knowledge
of color is outstanding and reaches well beyond that of most
natural science artists. He is widely traveled, completing much
work on location. He has taught workshops for the GNSI and AMI.
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Field Sketching at Mt. Rainier (two days)
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Jenny Keller
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Join us for a weekend field workshop in outdoor sketching
at the
spectacular Crystal Mountain Resort, listed in "Northwest's
Best Places," just over two hours west of Richland. Crystal
Mountain borders Mt.Rainier National Park and the Pacific Crest
National Scenic Trail. The view of Mt. Rainier from Crystal Mountain
has been acclaimed by the Seattle Times and Sunset Magazine as
being unsurpassed.
Friday evening:
Arrive, get settled in rooms, meet in "studio." Introduce
ourselves. Brief tour of the "library," (i.e., books about
and related to the topic of field sketching, which Rebecca and
I will bring). Talk about the schedule of events for the weekend.
Show and discuss various "field kit" art supplies.
Saturday:
Demonstration of field sketching techniques adapted for speediness
and portability. Perhaps a short intro to the natural history
of the area by one of the park rangers. Then outside to sketch,
starting off with some flexible sort of focus to get the ball
rolling. Lunch in the field, hopefully. After lunch, a fairly
substantial block of time during the afternoon for further sketching
adventures. In the evening after dinner, time for group sharing
of work, questions, and ideas; plus more time to peruse books in the library.
Sunday:
Out early for another outdoor sketching excursion of moderate
length. Return to "studio," share work. Say farewells,
pack, depart.
Jenny Keller helped establish the Science Illustration Program
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has developed their field courses that
focus on drawing natural subjects from life. The illustrator
of Dolphin Days, winner of the 1992 John Burroughs Award for
best book in natural history, her illustrations have appeared
in numerous well-known periodicals and books. Details are still
being arranged for this trip, which will be very reasonably priced.
The workshop begins the evening of the 13th, and runs through
the 15th (Sunday) - participants are advised to make arrangements
for their flights home NO EARLIER than 5 PM on the 15th from
either Seattle or Pasco. It is possible to extend the lodging
arrangements directly through the resort.
Workshop price: $90.00, includes instruction, transportation
from Richland and back, two sack lunches and two catered dinners.
(Breakfast and lodging not included).
Lodging is at the Crystal Mountain Resort Condos. They
offer fully equipped kitchens, including coffee, tea and popcorn,
linens and daily maid service. They are all one bedroom, equipped with bunk beds and bathroom, living room and kitchen.
LODGING price per person per night: Four/condo, $25.25; Three
per condo, $34.00; Two per condo, $45.00; One per condo, $90.00.
Prices include tax, and use of whirlpool and sauna from 4pm to
10 pm.
COMPUTER WORKSHOPS
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PHOTOSHOP AS A PAINTING MEDIUM, l and ll,
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Steve Buchanan |
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PART 1 is designed for illustrators who have a basic
familiarity with Photoshop or some other photo editing or painting
software.
As intimidating as Photoshop can seem, only a few of its tools
and functions are needed to create illustrations with the flexibility
and sensitivity afforded by traditional tools and media. This
session will identify those features and offer program settings
and painting methods that allow artists to apply their traditional
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Steve will demonstrate his use of the digitizing tablet to
get effects approximating traditional drawing tools. Setups for
brushes and palettes will be provided, and specific values or
settings will be suggested for every step involved in creating
an illustration. Once the program is set up, the demonstration
will proceed through the creation of some sample projects from
first sketches through preparing the final file to send to a
client.
Each participant will be provided with a CD containing all
the palettes, intermediate steps, and other inputs for the examples
used in the demonstrations.
PART 2 is designed for "graduates" of the
morning session and for illustrators who are already familiar
with the basic painting tools in Photoshop.
While only a few tools are indispensable for "painting"
in Photoshop, there are many more features that add speed, flexibility
or editability to the process. This session will introduce three
additional categories of functions and demonstrate their uses
in sample images:
1) image structuring and development (layers, etc.)
2) filters for making overall changes to images after they are
painted
3) tools for making specific adjustments (brightness, color characteristics,
contrast, etc.) without disturbing already completed details
and relationships.
Although these features are less directly analogous to traditional
materials, they all take advantage of an artist's ability to
understand the visual structure of an image in a painterly way.
Finally, we will look at a few simple formulas for using noise
and texture masks to mitigate the flatness that is too often
characteristic of digital art.
Each participant will be provided with a CD containing all
the palettes, intermediate steps, and other inputs for the examples
used in the demonstrations.
PHOTOSHOP LAB. For participants of Part1 and/or Part2
to try their hands at some of the techniques introduced in the
workshop. Those already creating digital work are encouraged
to bring their own examples for experiment or discussion.
LAYOUT AND DESIGN IN QUARK
Karen Ackoff
This workshop will provide a hands-on look at the features
of QuarkXpress, an industry standard in desktop publishing and
the design field. QuarkXpress can be used to design a wide range
of products, from a simple business card to a complex book.
Participants will learn to work with text and graphics:
- How to import text
- How to import graphics
- Graphics -- file formats and resolution issues
- Color -- working with CMYK and Pantone libraries
- Manipulating graphics -- scaling, rotating, wrapping text,
and coloring grayscale images
- Libraries -- repetitive use of text and images
- Formatting text -- indents and outdents, tabs, and style sheets
- Preparation of files for the printer -- font and graphics issues
In the course of the workshop, participants will create a
newsletter using text and graphics. Participants are encouraged
to bring images and text of their own, and time-permitting, may
work on a personal project.
Karen Ackoff has been a teacher, illustrator, and designer
for 25 years. She began her career illustrating children's educational
textbooks. Having always had an interest in science and medicine,
she studied medical illustration, obtaining her MFA from Rochester
Institute of Technology in 1985. She has taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
where she coordinated a concentration in scientific illustration.
From 1987 to 1997, she worked as Scientific Illustrator for the
Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural
History, Smithsonian Institution. She recently returned to teaching, and presently
coordinates the Graphic Design Program at Indiana University
South Bend. She has been an active member of the Guild of Natural
Science Illustrators for many years, including having coordinated
the summer workshop program at the Humboldt Institute (formerly
Eagle Hill Field Research Station) in 1992. She established and
continues to co-coordinate the Master Class in Scientific Illustration
series at the Humboldt Institute.
"CARTOGRAPHIC SUITE"
MAKING SENSE OF DEMS AND GIS; 3-D LANDSCAPE RENDERING;
COMPILATION IN FREEHAND
(three separate workshops)
Do you do geographic/cartographic work? Must you render 3D
landforms to scale? Have you spent hours upon hours hand-transferring
elevation data to your illustration, changing it from a 2D top
view to a 3D oblique view? Have you ever wished you could access
the USGS' Digital Elevation Mapping (DEM) data from the internet
and just plug it into a computer program, set your angle of view,
and put some "skin" on it? Well, now you can learn
how, with a noted professor of cartography who has trained the
best and brightest in the field. Ev Wingert has taught cartographic
illustration at the University of Hawaii for over 25 years, and
knows literally everything there is to know about the subject.
Easily conversant on both Macs and PCs, he knows the ins and
outs of what can be done on what platform. He will present a half day
on DEMs, how and where to obtain them, and ways to do it with
freeware. To follow will be a day-long workshop on terrain modeling
in Bryce, an inexpensive software that has many practical applications.
He will also discuss other software (including freeware) that
can do the job. In addition, he will spend an hour or two with
those interested in learning about World Construction Set, a
more advanced cartographic software.
Ev and his wife, Jane Eckelman, a busy cartographer with her
own business, Manoa Mapworks, will be spending the week
with us, and will be a wonderful resource. Jane will do a half-day
hands-on workshop on Freehand, which she uses routinely for map
compilation, and will concentrate on practical, everyday skills, such as tracing, bringing
in other data, etc.. (These skills are useful for anyone who
works in a vector program, regardless of the subject matter.)
Then she and Ev will "mop up" with a half-day's afternoon
computer session, to address any questions or other issues still
hanging, or to finish workshop exercises.
And who says one can't be creative with map rendering? Jane
is currently working on a contract with the State of Hawaii to
do a huge map of Hawaii in ceramics for the Honolulu International
Airport! We will eagerly anticipate her photos at the portfolio
sharing.
Frank Ippolito will conduct two 1/2 day workshops focusing
on the rich tool set that can be found in Adobe Photoshop 5.0,
as it applies to Natural Science Illustration.
INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP 5.0 FOR ILLUSTRATION will be geared
towards participants who are new to the computer, new to Photoshop
itself, or who want to start at ground zero to get the most comprehensive
overview of the program.
ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP 5.0 FOR ILLUSTRATION will be focusing
on more advanced
features of Photoshop. Numerous basic and advanced techniques
will be explored, including features in Photoshop that assist
in the process of stippling(!). Each participant will be working
on their own computer and will have access to a scanner. The
work will be output on a high quality printer. Workshop fees will cover all costs of color output.
Using supplied materials, participants will explore a series
of exercises that will lead to a finished digital illustration.
Emphasis will be on integrating these digital tools into the world of natural science
illustration. Participants are required to have a basic understanding
of the computer and Photoshop, and/or to have attended the Intro
workshop.
In addition, Frank will present 3D MODELING FOR ILLUSTRATION,
an extended
lecture/demo, which will feature an overview of the many tools
available in today's 3D programs. Also covered will be how the
working illustrator can integrate these new capabilities into
an established workflow. A number of programs will be discussed
including 3D Studio MAX, TrueSpace, Strata Studio Pro, Bryce,
and Poser. The lecture will include a live demonstration of many
of the points covered. Tight integration between 3D renderings
and Photoshop will be underscored and examples will include artwork
featured in a soon to be published children's book. Note: although
some of the software demonstrated will be specific to the PC platform,
the features covered will correlate to those found on all platforms.
Frank Ippolito graduated from Pratt Institute in 1981. He
has held the position of Senior Artist at the American Museum
of Natural History in New York, since 1983. An adjunct professor
at Fairleigh Dickenson University, Teaneck NJ, he has taught
Wildlife Illustration, Scientific Illustration,
Computer Illustration (Photoshop and Animation), Anatomy, and
Drawing. Frank has lectured and taught numerous workshops on
both digital and natural media for the annual GNSI conferences
and summer workshops, and he has also appeared as a guest lecturer
at many universities. He was
invited to teach a weeklong Masters Class in Scientific Illustration
at the Humboldt Institute last summer. His comprehensive article
Painting with Gouache appears in the GNSI Journal of Scientific
Illustration (vol.2, no.1). Current client list includes The Audubon
Society, Natural History Magazine, NY City Parks Department,
and the NY State Department Of Environmental Conservation.
FIELD TRIPS AND FIELD WORKSHOPS
(Not yet plugged into the
schedule. Some trips will be offered more than once.)
Our field trip line-up includes (but is not necessarily limited
to) the following:
1) A boat trip up the Columbia River to the Hanford Reach,
which has received national attention as the last stretch of
the Columbia River not controlled by a dam, and the only area
of the main river where salmon still spawn. As Hanford lands
are gradually turned over to local control, it is feared that
farming and land development will endanger its fragile banks
and salmon spawning habitat. 1998's National Audubon Society's
Conservationist of the Year was awarded to Rick Leaumont for
his efforts in gaining national attention to this pristine stretch
of river that teems with fish, bald eagles, osprey, deer, coyotes,
and other wildlife. Both a four-hour morning trip and two-hour
evening trip will be offered.
2) A morning trip to the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve (ALE), the
largest tract of undisturbed shrub-steppe habitat in the country,
which will take us atop nearby Rattlesnake Mountain (which has
the dubious honor of being the tallest, treeless mountain on
the North American continent). It is at the same elevation as Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascades,
so more of the desert wildflowers will still be blooming. The
view of much of the Pacific Northwest from the summit is no less
than breathtaking. (more than one trip will be offered). There's
an observatory up there, as well, for night time sky watching,
plans for which are in the works.*
3) An all-day geology field trip of the world-famous
Channeled Scablands, reputed to be one of the top geology field trips in
the world, with Battelle geologist Steve Reidel. See the fabulous
columnar
and entablature basalt formations carved by possibly the most
catastrophic floods of all time, the great Missoula (Bretz) Floods! Very personable and well-published in his field, Dr. Reidel is
perhaps the most widely respected authority on the geology of
the region.*
4) An ornithology field trip with Dan and Barbara Gleason.
Dan has been an ornithology instructor at the University of Oregon
in both the field and lab for over twenty years. Barbara, an
accomplished illustrator of birds, Dan and Barbara are exceeding knowledgeable
about their subjects, and their field workshops
have been very popular with Audubon groups in Oregon. Bird behavior
and posture sketching will be emphasized in the early morning
field trip, which will return before the normal conference schedule
of the day begins.
The afternoon preceding the field trip will offer a classroom
presentation on avian structure and anatomy, including discussion
on common mistakes made by illustrators, and the opportunity
to sketch from skeletons and skins under Dan and Barbara' s direction.
In addition, field trip participants will be prepared with tips
on behaviors, observation techniques, and other helpful fielding
advice.
5) A landform sketching and photography field trip. Within
a two and one half hour radius of the Tri-Cities are the most
incredible landforms - from buttes to alpine mountains to volcanoes
- and from fascinating river gorges and basalt column formations
to loess hills. Being able to sketch landforms "live"
is one of the best drawing exercises if geographic and geologic
illustration are up your alley, and here's your chance to take
advantage of a great variety of landforms within a small region. The trip will leave early to catch the morning light
for the fascinating basalt column formations, then towards Mt.
Rainier for the middle part of the day, then back late in the
afternoon to catch the "velvet effect" of light on
the buttes.
6) A morning archaeology field workshop to a dig site, with
an afternoon classroom drawing session to follow, given by popular
GNSI workshop presenter Liz Hansen, of the American Center for Archaeology. At the dig site will be an archaeologist, who along
with Liz will discuss what is being seen, the data that needs to be communicated from one archaeologist
to another, and how to record that data in an illustration. Details
are still being worked out so are sketchy at this writing, but
we do know that the dig site will be on government lands, so
participants will need to be badged; the comments regarding the
ALE trip apply for early registration.
7) McNary Dam on the Columbia River (half day). Get a taste
of the fascinating - and exceedingly challenging - world of salmon
management and restoration efforts with a WA State Fisheries
biologist. (Details are still pending, but will include fish
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